Teaching Human Security - Continued

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This seminar introduces the notion of “human security,” a term popularized, in part, by Canadian activists and policymakers. It then explores applications of the concept to humanitarian military intervention, refugee aid, natural resources and war, and criminal violence in cities.

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The theory and practice of human security is one of the most significant and recent developments in contemporary world politics. Calling into question previous notions of national and international security, human security focuses on both the individual and on people in general as the referent “object” of security. It focuses on contemporary challenges to basic human needs and desires, challenges that undermine our capacity as humans to be safe, free, and secure. It also focuses on how international actors have responded to such challenges.

This course aims to provide students with the theoretical and conceptual tools necessary for a comprehensive understanding of human security in national and international interactions. The overall themes of the course and the specific issue-areas discussed as empirical examples and topics require that students be familiar with current events. To this end students should follow contemporary international daily political, security, economic, social, and cultural developments through various media outlets. A secondary, though no less important, objective is to train students to conduct scholarly and analytical research and writing, and to think critically about issues and concepts discussed throughout the course.

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Good health is both essential and instrumental to achieving human security. But as we enter the 21st century, about half the world’s people, especially children and women are being left behind. The World Health Organization (WHO) recently estimated that more than 40% of the 56 million deaths each year are avoidable, given the world’s existing knowledge, technologies and resources. Many of these avoidable deaths — especially those due to infectious diseases, nutritional deprivations of children, maternity-related risks of unsafe childbearing and childrearing and violence—can be prevented only by reaching people trapped in poverty or conflict.

This seminar examines critical issues in global health that are fundamental to achieving human security - but which are generally outside the scope of international security studies. Topics include poverty, equity and non-medical determinants of health; global change and infectious diseases; issues in environmental health; conflict and weapons of mass destruction, war and public health; genocide and peace through health initiatives.

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James Ron

Human Security, INAF-5704
Carleton University
Norman Paterson School of International Affaires
jron(at)connect.carleton.ca
Fall Term 2007

Brent E. Sasley

Human Security, POLI 498N
Wilfred Laurier University
Political Science
bsasley(at)uta.edu
Winter Term 2007