Human security

Question 1

note the context of 90s human security

Answer 1

• Big UN
• Post cold war,
• Democracy spread

Question 2

what organisation does the concept of human security come from in one sense?

Answer 2

• The UN

Question 3

How did the UNDP (united nations development report) define human security?

Answer 3

• political
• food
• Health
• Environmental
• Personal
• Community
• Political

Question 4

It became recognised that states may not actually be security providers but may be?

Answer 4

• the problem itself

Question 5

the majority of conflicts since the end of the cold war have been?

Answer 5

• national not international

Question 6

what are the biggest ways to secure human security?

Answer 6

• development instead of arms
• sustainability
• north south partnership
• reform of international institutions like IMF, WB , UN

Question 7

what do the narrow school focus on?

Answer 7

• freedom from fear, looking at mostly violent threats to the individual

Question 8

What do the broad school focus on?

Answer 8

• freedom from want, human security should encompass everything from substance to genocide, obvs very broad

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

• Japan, Canada, Norway

Question 10

exemplify non EU upholding of human security in 2003

Answer 10

Australian involvement in solomon islands 2003

Question 11

define the evolution of human rights

Answer 11

• 70 years ago human rights were not really a thing until holocaust prompted UN to recognised them after the war
• property food housing

Question 12

what have been successes of human rights in 2012?

Answer 12

• Uganda
• Congo
• Central African Republic
• Sudan
• Kenya
• *Libya

Question 13

what does the bill of human rights do?

Answer 13

• provides authoritative list of indivisible rights and universal human rights
  (civil and political rights and economic social cultural rights

Question 14

Exemplify mutlilateral implementation mechanisms drawing attention to human rights violations

Answer 14

• Tianmen square

Question 15

how to NGOs achieve success?

Answer 15

• they breed cooperation of states, NGOs and international organisations to pressure states inside and out

(now a national interest to promote human rights)

Question 16

what do counter restrictionists argue?

Answer 16

• in favour of a legal right to humanitarian intervention based on interpretations of UN charter and international law

Question 17

why can you argue a legal right to HI would be bad

Answer 17

• vulnerable to abuse

- based on cultural interests of the powerful

Question 18

when was a high point for HI?

Answer 18

• 90s

Question 19

when was R2P adopted?

Answer 19

• 2005 world summit

Question 20

what are two pillars of R2P doctrine?

Answer 20

• 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)

Question 21

you can see human rights as an expansion of? Must mention what when you talk about Human rights>

Answer 21

• liberal natural rights
• must mention UN charter (freedom from prosecution, protection of life, equality, gender, racial, religious, education, identity, freedom of speech)

Question 22

Russia used what to intervene in Ukraine?

Answer 22

• R2P