Human security is understood as a response to the proliferation of new security threats which fit awkwardly within the relatively narrow confines of the traditional, state-centric national security paradigm. Human Security is a field of study that has emerged over the last 20 years. It is a sub-section of security studies but encompass a diverse range of academic disciplines and policy discourses (development studies, international relations, environmental studies, public health, economics, gender issues, human rights and foreign policy). It is also increasingly being adopted by policy-makers from individual nation states (Canada and Japan), bodies (European Union and the African Union) as well as institutionalized by the United Nations, and used by non-state actors in such as NGOs and the corporate sector. This volume serves as a valuable compilation of a disparate discourse, and a core reference for scholars and practitioners in a wide range of fields.

Volume One: Concept and Critique

Volume Two : As Critical Theory

Volume Three: Policy and Advocacy

Volume Four: Methodologies and Tools

VOLUME ONE: CONCEPT AND CRITIQUE
What Is Security? - Emma Rothschild
Redefining Security - Jessica Tuchman Mathews
Human Security - Sadako Ogata and Johan Cels
Protecting and Empowering the People
Conceptual Framework for Human Security - Sabina Alkire
Global Insights - Lloyd Axworthy
Human Security and Global Governance: Putting People First
Security Studies and the End of the Cold War - David Baldwin
Deepening the Human Security Debate - Pauline Ewan
Beyond the Politics of Conceptual Clarification
Securing Humanity - Des Gasper
Situating ¿Human Security¿ as Concept and Discourse
The Security Puzzle - Helga Haftendorn
Theory-Building and Discipline-Building in International Security
Human Security - Dan Henk
Relevance and Implications
Human Security - Yuen Foong Khong
A Shotgun Approach to Alleviating Human Misery?
Human Security - Gerd Oberlietner
A Challenge to International Law?
Editors¿ Note - J. Peter Burgess and Taylor Owen
A Political Worldview - Ramesh Thakur
A New Scientific Field and Policy Lens - Lloyd Axworthy
A Concept in Need of a Global Policy Response - Fen Osler Hampson
An Idea That Works in Practice - Don Hubert
A Field of Overlaps and Interactions - Peter Uvin
A Bridge between the Interconnected Challenges Confronting the World - Caroline Thomas
Psychosocial Well-Being over Time - Jennifer Leaning
An Holistic Paradigm - Amitav Acharya
A Challenge to the Power over Knowledge of Traditional Security Studies - Kyle Grayson
A Normatively Attractive but Analytically Weak Concept - Edward Newman
A Vital Core That Must Be Treated with the Same Gravitas as Traditional Security Threats - Sabina Alkire
An Expression of Threats versus Capabilities across Time and Space - Kanti Bajpai
A Broad Concept That Encourages Interdisciplinary Thinking - Donna Winslow and Thomas Hylland Eriksen
A Concept in Search of Relevance - P.H. Liotta
A Concept Still on the Margins, but Evolving from Its Asian Roots - Paul Evans
A Stalled Initiative - Astri Suhrke
A Signifier of Shared Values - Andrew Mack
The Key to a Powerful Agenda, if Properly Delimited - Keith Krause
A Useful Concept That Risks Losing Its Political Salience - S. Neil Macfarlane
A Reductionist, Idealistic Notion That Adds Little Analytical Value - Barry Buzan
Still an Inscrutable Concept - Roland Paris
Human Security - Taylor Owen
Conflict, Critique and Consensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold-Based Definition
Global Inequality and Human Security - Amartya Sen
Global Governance, Development and Human Security - Caroline Thomas
Exploring the Links
The Idea of Human Security - Des Gasper
Human Security - Roland Paris
Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?
New Dimensions of Human Security - Human Development Report (United Nations Development Program)
Human Security and the United Nations - Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong Khong
Human Security - Mary Kaldor and Mary Martin Sabine Selchow
A New Strategic Narrative for Europe
Human Security - Amitav Acharya
East versus West
VOLUME TWO: AS CRITICAL THEORY
Critical Voices and Human Security - Ryerson Christie
To Endure, to Engage or to Critique?
Human Security - Annick Wibben
Toward an Opening
The Tyranny of Benevolence - William Bain
National Security, Human Security and the Practice of Statecraft
Girl Soldiers - Mary-Jane Fox
Human Security and Gendered Insecurity
The Human and the Social - Des Gasper
A Comparison of the Discourses of Human Development, Human Security and Social Quality
Gender, Resistance and Human Security - Gunhild Hoogensen and Kirsti Stuvøy
Human Security as Global Security - Ralph Pettman
Reconceptualizing Strategic Studies
Human Security as Power/Knowledge - Kyle Grayson
The Bio-Politics of a Definitional Debate
¿Doing¿ Security as though Humans Matter - Heidi Hudson
A Feminist Perspective on Gender and the Politics of Human Security
Critical Human Security Studies - Edward Newman
Human Security and the Governmentality of Neo-liberal Mobility - Thanh-Dam Truong
A Feminist Perspective
Human Security, Neo-Liberalism and Corporate Social Responsibility - Kyle Grayson
Sovereign Power and the Bio-Politics of Human Security - Miguel De Larrinaga and Marc Doucet
The Civilized Self and the Barbaric Other - Ikechi Mgbeoji
Imperial Delusions of Order and the Challenges of Human Security
Individual and Societal Dimensions of Security - Pinar Bilgin
Critical Theory and Security Studies - Keith Krause
The Research Programme of ¿Critical Security Studies¿
Globalization and Human Security - Earl Conteh-Morgan
A Neo-Gramscian Perspective
Human Security and Constructivism - Edward Newman
Paradigms in Conflict - Mohammad Nuruzzaman
The Contested Claims of Human Security Critical Theory and Feminism
Review Essay - David Chandler
Human Security: The Dog That Didn¿t Bark
The Critique That Doesn¿t Bite - Taylor Owen
A Response to David Chandler¿s Human Security: The Dog That Didn¿t Bark
Power and Agency in the Human Security Framework - Tara McCormack
VOLUME THREE: POLICY AND ADVOCACY
Human Security¿s Future in Regional Co-Operation and Governance? - Melissa Curley
Securing Humans in a Dangerous World - M. Duffield and N. Waddell
Japan¿s Foreign Policy and Human Security - Bert Edström
Pulpit Diplomacy - Fen Osler Hampson and Dean Oliver
A Critical Assessment of the Axworthy Doctrine
Human Security - Richard Jolly and Deepayan Basu Ray
National Perspectives and Global Agendas: Insights from National Human Development Reports
The Utility of the Human Security Agenda for Policy Makers - Pauline Kerr, Williem Tow and Marianne Hanson
Instituting and Projecting Human Security - George MacLean
A Canadian Perspective
Much Ado about Little - Janne Haaland Matlary
The European Union and Human Security
The Second Generation of Human Security - Mary Martin and Taylor Owen
Lessons from the United Nations and European Union Experience
The Utility of Human Security - Nicholas Thomas and William Tow
Sovereignty and Humanitarian Intervention
Humanitarianism and Human Security in a Post-9/11 World - Jide Martyns Okeke
Collaborative Human Security? The United Nations and Other Actors in Cambodia - Sorpong Peou
Human Security and the Interests of States - Astrid Suhrke
Boomerang Effect - P.H. Liotta
The Convergence of National and Human Security
Human Security in Practice - David Bosold and Sascha Werthes
Canadian and Japanese Experiences
Human Security from Paradigm Shift to Operationalization - Marlies Glasius
Job Description for a Human Security Worker
VOLUME FOUR: METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLS
The Idea of Human Security - Kanti Bajpai
Notes on Developing a Human Security/Insecurity Index - Peter Brecke
True Measures of Human Security - Paz Buttedahl
Human Security during Complex Humanitarian Emergencies - Lincoln Chen and Aafje Rietveld
Rapid Assessment and Institutional Capabilities
Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS - Taylor Owen and O. Slaymaker
Case Study Cambodia
Human Development Index - Amartya Sen and Sudhir Anand
Methodology and Measurement
Human Security - Jennifer Leaning and Sam Arie
A Framework for Analysis in Settings of Crisis and Transition
Rethinking Human Security - Gary King and Christopher Murray
The Index of Human Insecurity - Steve Lonergan
Proposal for the Creation of a Human Security Report - Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research
Data Issues in the Study of Conflict - Paul Collier and Anke Hoeffler
Architecture for Early Warning at the United Nations Based on Human Security Indicators - Sundara Vadlamudi
Measuring Human Security - Taylor Owen
Methodological Challenges and the Importance of Geographically Referenced Determinants