What Is 'Human Security'?

In: Security dialogue, Band 35, Heft 3, S. 345-372

Abstract

The future of human security within the international academic community is examined. It is contended that the interdisciplinary nature of human security studies has forestalled its solidification within any particular discipline; nonetheless, it is asserted that the transdisciplinary nature of human security renders it an attractive avenue of future scholarly inquiry. Several aspects of human security studies are addressed: determining the subject domains for human security studies; differentiating traditional security & human security studies; predicting future directions for both empirical studies of human security & the development of human security theory; & offering interdisciplinary approaches to exploring human security. Comments on these topics are offered by Ramesh Thakur, Lloyd Axworthy, Fen Osler Hampson, Don Hubert, Peter Uvin, Caroline Thomas, Jennifer Leaning, Amitav Acharya, Kyle Grayson, Edward Newman, Sabina Alkire, Kanti Bajpai, Donna Winslow & Thomas Hylland Eriksen, P.H. Liotta, Paul Evans, Astri Suhrke, Andrew Mack, Keith Krause, Neil Macfarlane, Barry Buzan, & Roland Paris. 13 References. J. W. Parker