A true measure of success? The discourse and practice of human security in haiti
| Abstract | This article attempts to tease out whether human security has been integrated in institutional discourses and practices, beyond its obviously limited currency in UN Security Council debates and resolutions. It starts from the observation that the underlying priorities of a human security approach - promoting physical safety, violence reduction, human rights, control of the instruments of violence, use of child soldiers, and so forth - are increasingly showing up in these forums, even when the label of human security is formally eschewed. In fact, several governments within and outside of the Security Council, have worked hard to implement human security policies through the so-called protection of civilians (POC) agenda. In the past five years, POC has made some important progress. While the expression human security itself may not have successfully entered the lexicon of a great many member states, human security priorities manifestly have. This article demonstrates this through a critical examination of two particular cases: the UN-sponsored missions in Haiti, spaced roughly ten years apart, before and after the human security agenda emerged. Haiti is an excellent case study because it is a priority engagement of proponents of human security, and because it is a prism through which many similar peace-support operations can also be examined or compared. | |||||||||
| Keywords | No keywords specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Categories | No categories specified (fix it) | |||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,875 |
| External links |
  Try with proxy. |
| Through your library | Only published papers are available at libraries |
Similar books and articlesEmilian Kavalski (2009). Timescapes of Security: Clocks, Clouds, and the Complexity of Security Governance. World Futures 65 (7):527 – 551.
Wolter Pieters (2010). Reve{a,I}Ling the Risks. Techné 14 (3):194-206.
Stephen John (2011). Security, Knowledge and Well-Being. Journal of Moral Philosophy 8 (1):68-91.
Fiona Robinson (2011). The Ethics of Care: A Feminist Approach to Human Security. Temple University Press.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads23 ( #54,718 of 556,896 )Recent downloads (6 months)2 ( #39,122 of 556,896 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
