Policy Sciences and the Quest for Human Security (2024)

Why Security Science

Security Science Journal, 2020

In this paper, the authors are discussing the need to introduce security sciences as a new scientific field within the existing organization of social sciences. The development of quality, usable, and functional human knowledge and skills have been guaranteed safe and undisturbed development of individuals and communities since the beginning of their existence. The development of society has led to a change of paradigms on which reflections and analyses about security, conflict and war rested. This, in turn, brings us to the situation of the need to change those paradigms of organization, principles, concepts, and theories of security as a new scientific discipline that should enable the continuation of safe and unhindered development of human society.

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Integration of Human Security as Part of Public Policy to Achieve Conflict Resolution and Prevention

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Building the agenda of human security: policy and practice within the Human Security Network

International Social Science Journal, 2008

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Human security: Concept and practice

2007

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Towards a practical human security agenda

2010

" The concept of “human security,” which today is widely used by a wide range of governments, international organizations and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), is only the latest in a long series of attempts to broaden traditional conceptions of security. These include such ideas as global security, societal security, common security, comprehensive security and cooperative security.

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Governing Human (In)Security: An Attempt to Secure Life

International Conference on International Relations Universitas Katholik Parahyangan, 2016

Human security concept emerged from the multidisciplinary facets of security, development, and environmental point of views. Human survival was the main concern of this human security paradigm. Environmental degradation, climate change, pandemic diseases, short of crops supply could not be understood as single issue of natural science. More to it, those threats entailed to anthropological course, thus the reaction toward the threats was fully committed to anthropocentric reason. To understand about the meaning of security, people need to rethink the meaning of insecurity. Insecurity could be understood by acknowledging the threats possessed by Nation State and also by accepting that how human living system are insecure and vulnerable by design. Threat was seen global and interconnected phenomena beyond the national boundaries. The reception of that nature possessed risk toward humans' freedom and power, therefore humans grew the ability to transform the nature and its system around them. Governing the nature for human survival was an attempt to securitize the insecurity itself. Securitization is by designed aimed to introduce humans' exposure to danger through the political acts. The challenge of understanding human security was on how the more humans securitize, the more insecurities would emerge. Securing life could be understood as normalizing the insecurity, thus people could adjust to endangerment as integral part of life.

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The future of security research in the social sciences and humanities

The SAFE project identified and analysed contributions of humanities and social sciences to security research at four international workshops and concluded with a conference summarising its findings. The present paper broadens the discussion field by taking stock of recent debates around understanding security and insecurity, and outlines new research challenges based on the hypothesis that the social and human dimension of security are both indispensable. It demonstrates that security has never been separable from the social, cultural, political, historical and ethical elements at its core. The paper is addressed to research policy makers and research funders as well as researchers involved in security research. It is the intention of the Standing Committee for the Humanities that the paper opens a discussion on new ways forward and enriches the understanding of this research field stimulating innovative proposals.

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Human Security as a policy framework: Critics and Challenges

Deusto Journal of Human Rights, 2017

El concepto de seguridad humana ha alcanzado gran preeminencia y aceptación en el período posterior a la Guerra Fría. En la última década, los mensajes centrales de la seguridad humana como referencia política general se han incorporado gradualmente en las relaciones internacionales. Ha habido muchas publicaciones, informes oficiales y comisiones internacionales que han desarrollado y promovido el concepto. Entre ellos, la Comisión Internacional de Seguridad Humana (CHS) propone la seguridad humana como un nuevo marco para abordar las condiciones y las amenazas que las personas enfrentan en el mundo actual. Basado en el informe de la Comisión de Seguridad Humana (CHS), este trabajo en primer lugar analiza el significado de la seguridad humana, sus diferencias con respecto al desarrollo humano y los derechos humanos. En lugar de insistir en el debate sobre los enfoques más amplios o más restringidos y analizar las distintas definiciones, algo que ya se ha hecho, este documento argume...

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Human Security: a Need and a Challenge

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014

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Conceptualization of Human Security and Its Policy Implications

2019

The Horn of Africa is one of the most conflict ridden regions in the Continent. In fact, it is labeled as an extension of the Middle East hotspot given the region’s propensity to the taking shape and escalation of violence marked by rebel activities, military coups, ethnic and racial insurgencies, human rights violations, and state collapse. What is more, in view of the broadening and deepening of the concept of security as well as the emergence of new threats of security in the region spanning from different trans-national crimes such as terrorism, human and drug trafficking, money laundering, illegal migration, cybercrimes, maritime piracy, small arms proliferation etc. to widespread environmental degradation, diseases, climate change and even political policies that are prejudicial to national sovereignty necessitates the re-conceptualization of security in the Horn of Africa. Thus, in this undertaking, secondary sources were used to shed light on the changing conceptualization o...

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