Human security and international law2014

In 1994, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) coined the term {u2018}human security{u2019} in the seminal UNDP Human Development Report. This report approached {u2018}security{u2019} for the first time from a holistic perspective: security would no longer be viewed from a purely military perspective, but rather it would encapsulate economic, food, health, environmental, personal, community and political security. Although the concept of human security accords a higher status to individual than to governmental interests, human security discourses have continually emphasised the central role of States as providers of human security. This volume challenges this paradigm, and highlights the part played by non-state actors in both threatening human security and also in rescuing or...