Canadian Consortium on Human Security
June 2007 I Vol. 5, Issue 2
New Human Security Publications
1. Human Security for an Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Perspectives
By humansecurity-cities.org (CCHS/DFAIT)
Human Security for an Urban Century: Local Challenges, Global Perspectives is the most recent and comprehensive product of humansecurity-cities.org , a unique research partnership between the Canadian Consortium on Human Security (CCHS) based at the University of British Columbia, and the Human Security Research and Outreach Program supported by Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT). Humansecurity-cities.org was launched in early 2006 as a vehicle to explore the potential for cooperative scholarship and policy development related to an urban human security agenda.
Human Security for an Urban Century draws on the work of 40 external contributors who share viewpoints and information from a broad variety of backgrounds and fields. Together they include policymakers, academics, field practitioners and non-governmental organization representatives who apply an urban lens to fields including children and armed conflict, security system reform, small arms and light weapons, stabilization and reconstruction, peacebuilding and democracy promotion, among others. The narrative text, jointly authored by DFAIT and CCHS, provides a snapshot of human security challenges and opportunities, with facts and analysis based on research and consultationsconducted in 2006-07. This publication aims to take stock of this knowledge in the hope of devising a longer-term, strategic policy agenda for advancing human security in urban spaces.
Available for free download at: www.humansecurity-cities.org
2. Human Security: Concepts and Implications
By Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh and Anuradha Chenoy
Released in December 2006, Human Security: Concepts and Implications traces the evolution of the concept of human security, its various definitions and critiques, and its implications for politics and policy. Authors Shahrbanou Tadjbakhsh and Anuradha Chenoy include case studies from Afghanistan, Central Asia, and South Asia in order to answer a number of key questions about human security, including: what are the practical applications of the concept? What is the added value of a human security approach in re-examining theories of security, development and human rights? What are the roles, responsibilities and capacities of the state, the international community and civil society within a new security vision?
Targeting at teachers and researchers, this book serves as a comprehensive overview of the debates around human security. Published by Routledge.
