Human Security and Insecurity
Undergraduate Lecture Last Taught: Fall 2015
This course surveys the various debates, concepts, and issues clustered around human security. The concept of human security is relatively new, yet it refers to a serious of longstanding challenges including, but not limited to, the deprivations of poverty, vulnerability to environmental change, and risk in conflict and post-conflict situations. This course will explore the history of human security as a term, focusing particularly on the emergence of human security as a category of global governance in the 1990s and 2000s. It will ask what “human security” as a term adds to and enables within global intervention. It will ask what is gained or lost when considering issues such as conflict and climate together as "human security." It will also explore a range of issues in the broad field of human security, touching on theoretical and practical concerns around climate change, violent conflict, health, and more. Students will engage with these issues through academic writings, explorations of policies and response strategies, and in-depth case studies.
This course surveys the various debates, concepts, and issues clustered around human security. The concept of human security is relatively new, yet it refers to a serious of longstanding challenges including, but not limited to, the deprivations of poverty, vulnerability to environmental change, and risk in conflict and post-conflict situations. This course will explore the history of human security as a term, focusing particularly on the emergence of human security as a category of global governance in the 1990s and 2000s. It will ask what “human security” as a term adds to and enables within global intervention. It will ask what is gained or lost when considering issues such as conflict and climate together as "human security." It will also explore a range of issues in the broad field of human security, touching on theoretical and practical concerns around climate change, violent conflict, health, and more. Students will engage with these issues through academic writings, explorations of policies and response strategies, and in-depth case studies.
