This thoroughly revised second edition of a popular text explores the theory and application of concepts central to human security, the protection of individuals from harm. Through an examination of the critical questions and priorities, it grounds students in the conceptual roots as well as applications and challenges both in war and peacetime.

Section I: Introduction to Human Security

1. Human Security-A New Security?

2. Historical Foundations of Human Security

3. Human Security Actors

4. Human Rights and Human Security

Section II: Armed Conflict and Human Security

5. From Non-Intervention to the Responsibility to Protect

6. Human Security in Peace Processes

7. Human Security and Peacebuilding

Section III: Durable Human Security

8. Durable Human Security: Breaking the Cycle of Insecurity

9. Health Security as Human Security

10. Gender Inequality and Security

11. Climate Change and Environmental Security

12. Food Security

Section IV: Conclusions

13. Human Security: An Essential Approach to Twenty-First Century Security Problems

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By David Andersen-Rodgers and Kerry F. Crawford