Good Practices in Addressing Human Security through National Human Development Reports

Gómez, Oscar A.; Gasper, Des; Mine, Yoichi

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“…Such an approach promises to help orient polices for societies in which ethnic conflict has taken place or could happen in the future -though, boldly, Stewart even recommended such analysis as part of development policy for all societies. It is worth observing that other examples of crisis-related reports on human development follow similar patterns of providing a broader picture of underlying threats, such as in the above-mentioned water crisis HDR (UNDP 2006) and in human security-related national and regional HDRs (Gómez, Gasper and Mine 2013). …”

Section: Modeling and Measuring Crisismentioning

confidence: 82%

“…This is perhaps obvious, but it is worth highlighting, especially given that the relevance of human development ideas beyond the HDI and not reduced to the capability approach is sometimes questioned (Fukuda-Parr 2009). Many of the HDRs are examples of this need for external inputs, as it is latent in relation to crisis in human security-related reports (Gómez, Gasper and Mine 2013).…”

Section: The Position Of Crisis In Human Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

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What Can the Human Development Approach Tell Us about Crisis? An Exploration

Gómez¹

2014

International Journal of Social Quality

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Recognizing the influence crises have in shaping global governance nowadays, the present work explores the possible contribution of human development thinking countering the perverse effects of shock-driven responses to major emergencies. This is done by focusing on contributions by Sen, Dreze, Haq and Stewart related to famines, violent conflict and the idea of human security, analyzed using a selection of four criteria, namely, describing the position of crisis inside human development thinking, issues of modeling and measurement, the stance toward agency, and the actors gathered around the discourse. After strengths and weaknesses are considered, the article suggests a tangential involvement through other human concepts, so human development ideas do not get muddled by the logic of shocks and fulfill the great responsibility of helping us avoid the many shortfalls of a securityobsessed view of humanity.

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Section: Modeling and Measuring Crisismentioning

confidence: 82%

Section: The Position Of Crisis In Human Lifementioning

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What Can the Human Development Approach Tell Us about Crisis? An Exploration

Gómez¹

2014

International Journal of Social Quality

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“…Attempts to collect lessons from the past two decades' experience include a series of regional surveys led by UNESCO (e.g., Burgess et al 2007) and the resulting global synthesis report (UNESCO 2008), and two reviews of the many national and regional Human Development Reports that have consciously adopted a human security approach: a 2006 review by Basu Ray (2006, 2007) and a recent update by Gómez, Gasper and Mine (2013). The work by Jolly and Basu Ray looked at the book-length studies prepared for the UNDP in Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lesotho, Macedonia, Moldova, Mozambique, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste.…”

Section: Operationalizing Human Security Ideas: Levels Of Analysis Anmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Categorization of Some of the National Human Development Reports That Have Explicitly Adopted a Human Security Theme (based onGómez, Gasper and Mine 2013) …”

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Human Security Analysis as a Framework for Value-Oriented Governance: The Example of Climate Change

Gasper¹

2014

International Journal of Social Quality

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Good governance" may be viewed as governance that effectively promotes human rights, human security and human development. This article discusses human security analysis, which in certain ways offers an integration of these "human" perspectives together with a "social" orientation, by combining a person-focus with systematic investigation of the environing systems of all sorts: physical, cultural, organizational. The importance of such analysis is illustrated through the example of climate change impacts and adaptation. The article presents applications of a human security framework in governance, for policy analysis, planning and evaluation issues in climate change and other fields. The concluding section suggests that human security analysis may provide a way to apply insights from social quality analysis to detailed case investigation and policy analysis, while reducing macro-sociological abstraction and neglect of the natural environment.

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“…(7) How much security -this point elaborates the third, concerning which values are to be secured, by asking: secured to what extent, what are the targets for the level of assurance. Last: (8) Secured by what instruments -this point elaborates the fourth, concerning who are the providers, with fuller attention now to the specific means that will be employed (Gomez et al 2013). Table 1 encapsulates the checklist of questions and the corresponding agenda.…”

Section: Dimensions and Character Of A Human Security Approachmentioning

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Elements and value-added of a human security approach in the study of climate change

Gasper¹

2013

Handbook on Climate Change and Human Security

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What can human security analysis add in the study of climate change?To present climate change as an issue of human security means to focus on the impacts and implications in the lives of ordinary people, not only in the agendas of armies, states or national economies. It means, for example, looking at life expectancies and patterns of nutrition, morbidity and mortality, not only at whether stressed populations might explode into armed conflict -the extreme 'Darfur' scenario. That sort of scenario and such preoccupations often reflect traditional state-centred and military-focused concerns more than person-focused ones. That poor people in most cases seem to lack the organization, cohesion or resources to initiate armed conflict does not mean that their plight is not an issue of-human-security. As part of a humanist perspective, the human security approach means looking at more also than aggregates of monetized economic variables, but rather at the contents, objective and subjective, of the lives of all of the people -at their 'do-ings' and 'be-ings', the constraints that they face, the real opportunities that they have, or lack, and the meanings that they experience -not only at the parts and the persons that are counted in money terms.Security language is commonly tacitly oriented to prioritising and safeguarding the interests of powerful groups within nation-states. 'Human security' is in origin a counter-concept, that attempts to turn the frequently predominant implicit association of 'security' with the security of the state, to a focus instead on the security of human persons, seen as real individuals in the round, and not only as bodies and statistics. The attempted turn involves, first, looking at the security of distinct human individuals, in the circumstances of their particular lives at the intersection of many different forces. Why focus on this set, human persons? Why not ignore some of them? Or why not also include the security of bacteria, algae or clouds? Evidently, human security thinking is a humanist approach, sister to the perspectives of human rights and human development; better put, it is a sister face of a humanist perspective. Further, with all human individuals taken as the set of primary objects of value concern, there is implicitly or typically an interest in the security of the human species, including future generations. According to some authors, there should also be a concern with the security in some respects of human groups, cultures and meaning-systems, since persons are group members (see e.g. Roe 2010). Securing one thing (such as a group) may, however, sometimes be in competition with securing others (such as individual persons). Different types of human security approach reflect different stances on how to conceptualise human identity, human interests, and how to weigh competing considerations. In effect there are different viewpoints about the nature of being human.

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Good Practices in Addressing Human Security through National Human Development Reports

Cited by 17 publications

References 23 publications

What Can the Human Development Approach Tell Us about Crisis? An Exploration

What Can the Human Development Approach Tell Us about Crisis? An Exploration

Human Security Analysis as a Framework for Value-Oriented Governance: The Example of Climate Change

Elements and value-added of a human security approach in the study of climate change

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