Human security Flashcards
note the context of 90s human security
- Big UN
- Post cold war,
- Democracy spread
what organisation does the concept of human security come from in one sense?
- The UN
How did the UNDP (united nations development report) define human security?
- political
- food
- Health
- Environmental
- Personal
- Community
- Political
It became recognised that states may not actually be security providers but may be?
- the problem itself
the majority of conflicts since the end of the cold war have been?
- national not international
what are the biggest ways to secure human security?
- development instead of arms
- sustainability
- north south partnership
- reform of international institutions like IMF, WB , UN
what do the narrow school focus on?
- freedom from fear, looking at mostly violent threats to the individual
What do the broad school focus on?
- freedom from want, human security should encompass everything from substance to genocide, obvs very broad
which states adopted human security as official state policy after the UN publishement of the development plan in 1994 to respect all citizens and avoid poverty / reduce disease?
- Japan, Canada, Norway
exemplify non EU upholding of human security in 2003
Australian involvement in solomon islands 2003
define the evolution of human rights
- 70 years ago human rights were not really a thing until holocaust prompted UN to recognised them after the war
- property food housing
what have been successes of human rights in 2012?
- Uganda
- Congo
- Central African Republic
- Sudan
- Kenya
- *Libya
what does the bill of human rights do?
- provides authoritative list of indivisible rights and universal human rights
(civil and political rights and economic social cultural rights
Exemplify mutlilateral implementation mechanisms drawing attention to human rights violations
- Tianmen square
how to NGOs achieve success?
- they breed cooperation of states, NGOs and international organisations to pressure states inside and out
(now a national interest to promote human rights)
what do counter restrictionists argue?
- in favour of a legal right to humanitarian intervention based on interpretations of UN charter and international law
why can you argue a legal right to HI would be bad
- vulnerable to abuse
- based on cultural interests of the powerful
when was a high point for HI?
- 90s
when was R2P adopted?
- 2005 world summit
what are two pillars of R2P doctrine?
- states largely endorsed secretary generals approach to R2P
- USe of force for protection purposes continues to be controversial like Libya shows (responsibility while protecting concept into’d to bridge divides on issue)
you can see human rights as an expansion of? Must mention what when you talk about Human rights>
- liberal natural rights
- must mention UN charter (freedom from prosecution, protection of life, equality, gender, racial, religious, education, identity, freedom of speech)
Russia used what to intervene in Ukraine?
- R2P
