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Regional Perspectives

AFRICA

Addison, Tony, Africa's Recovery from Conflict: Making Peace Work for the Poor, Policy Brief 6, UNU/WIDER, Helsinki, 2003. (PDF document)

Commission on Human Security, Workshop on Rethinking Peace, Coexistence, and Human Security in the Great Lakes Region, Kigali, Rwanda, 16-19 April 2002.

Commission on Human Security, Symposium on Economic Insecurity in Africa, Cotonou, Benin, 24-25 May 2002.

Institute for Security Studies, Human Security in Africa, Vol.16, No.2, June 2007. Edition dedicated to human security issues. (PDF document)

New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) Secretariat, African Post-Conflict Recovery Policy Framework, June 2005.

Organisation for Economic Development and Cooperation (OECD), Security and Human Security: An Overview of Concepts and Initiatives. What Implications for West Africa?, Sahel and West Africa Club, December 2004. (PDF document)

Pollard, Matt and Godwin Odo, Conference Report: Conflicts and Human Security in West Africa, Essex Human Rights Review, Vol.1, No.1, p.87-92, 2000. (PDF document)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Peace, Human Security and Conflict Prevention in Africa, proceedings of the UNESCO-ISS Expert Meeting, Pretoria, 23-24 July 2001.

United Nations, Office for the Special Advisor on Africa, Human Security in Africa, December 2005.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Kenya National Human Development Report, Human Security and Human Development: A Deliberate Choice, 2006.

Zedeck, Rachel, Private Military/Security Companies, Human Security and State Building in Africa, African Review Vol.16, No.4, p.98-104, 2007. (PDF document)

ASIA

Cohen, Roberta, Effective Development Requires Security, (Afghanistan), Global Future, First Quarter 2003, p.13-14. (PDF document)

Japan Center for International Exchange, The Asian Crisis and Human Security: An Intellectual Dialogue on Building Asia's Tomorrow, Tokyo, 1998.

Japan Center for International Exchange, Human Security Challenges of AIDS and Communicable Disease in Asia - Exploring Effective Regional and Global Responses, Tokyo, 2004. (PDF document)

Friends for Peace and International Alert, Youth Perspectives on Community Security in the Eastern Terai, Briefing Paper, January 2008. (PDF document)

United Nations Development Programme, Afghanistan's National Human Development Report: Security with a Human Face, 21 February 2005.

United Nations University, Asia's Emerging Regional Order: Reconciling Traditional and Human Security, August 2000.

EUROPE AND CIS

Carman, Tony, The Convergence of Human Security Threats and National Security Interests in Central Asia, Atlantic Affairs Journal, Vol.2, No.2, p.39-68, 2008. (PDF document)

Collins, Kathleen, Human Security in Central Asia: Challenges Posed by a Decade of Transition (1991-2002), a report prepared for the Commission on Human Security, March 2002. (PDF document)

Commission on Human Security, Roundtable on Transition and Human Security in Central Asia, Ashgabad, Turkmenistan, 22-24 April 2002. (PDF document)

Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou and Tomescu-Hatto, Odette (eds), Promoting Human Security : Ethical , Normative and Educational Frameworks in Eastern Europe, UNESCO, Paris, 2007.

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Central Asia Human Development Report, Bringing down barriers: Regional cooperation for human development and human security, Bratislava, 2005. (PDF document)

United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) National Human Development Report: Human Security and Human Development, Latvia, 2003.

MIDDLE EAST AND THE ARAB STATES

Oxford Research Group, Report on the Amman Roundtable: Human Security in the Middle East, Amman, Jordan, 11-12 May 2004. (PDF document)

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, Human Security in the Arab Region, proceedings of the UNESCO-RHSC International Conference, Amman, Jordan, 14-15 March 2005.

LATIN AMERICA

de Carvalho, Ilona and Raphael M.C. Corrêa, Brazilian Perspectives on Human Security, Policy: Issues and Actors, Vol.20, No.8, Centre for Policy Studies, Johannesburg, 2007. (PDF document)

Peetz, Peter, Discourses on Violence in Costa Rica, El Salvador and Nicaragua: Youth, Crime and the Responses on the State, GIGA Working Papers, June 2008. (PDF document)