PSCI252 Lecture Notes - Sierra Leone, Favela, Human Security
30 Apr 2014
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Broad and narrow perspectives on human security: from state security to human security, broad view of hs: poverty and millenium development goals, narrow view of hs: vulnerable groups in the situations of violence. Human rights is often defined as freedom from frear and freedom from want. Human security is a very new concept with very little grounding in the realm of political study. Perhaps because of this or despite this, there is a sense of urgency around the notion of human security. There is a feeling that the international community is not doing enough to protect human rights. and that this negligence will undermine international peace and security. from state security to human security. The security of individual as a product of state security. Too much money being spent on guns. Undp came out with a report centred entirely around the concept of human security.
