Digital Library of Human Security

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Annan, Kofi, In Larger Freedom, Report of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Decision by Heads of States and Government in September 2005, United Nations, New York, 2005.
 
Annan, Kofi, A More Secure World: Our Shared Responsibility, Report of the Secretary-General’s High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, United Nations, New York, 2004.
 
Annan, Kofi, We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, Chapter III, Freedom from Want, and Chapter IV, Freedom from Fear, United Nations, New York, 2000.
 
Alkire, Sabina, A Conceptual Framework for Human Security, Center for Research on Inequality, Human Security and Ethnicity (CRISE), Queen Elizabeth House, University of Oxford, Working Paper No.2, 2002. (PDF document)
 
Arias, Oscar, Globalization and the Challenges of Human Security, presentation at the University of San Diego, San Diego, 25 September 1998.
 
Ban, Ki-moon, Human Security, Report of the Secretary General, United Nations, New York, 2010
 
Ban, Ki-moon, Ban, Ki-moon, Keeping the promise: a forward-looking review to promote an agreed action agenda to achieve the Millennium Development Goals by 2015. Report of the Secretary General, United Nations, New York, 2010
 
Ban, Ki-moon, The world financial and economic crisis and its impact on development, Report of the Secretary General, United Nations, New York, 2009.
 
Brookings Institution, Roundtable discussion on The Policy Implications of the Commission on Human Security's Report, Washington DC, 12 June 2003.
 
Carter Center, Human Security and the Future of Development Cooperation, Development Cooperation Forum, Atlanta, 21-22 February 2002. (PDF document)
 
Chowdhury, Ambassador Anwarul Karim, Human Security: A Broader Dimension, keynote paper presented at the Fourth United Nations Conference on Disarmament Issues, Kyoto, 27 July 1999.
 
Commission on Human Security, Human Security Now - Protecting and Empowering People, New York, 2003.
 
Corell, Hans, From Territorial Sovereignty to Human Security, address at the Canadian Council of International Law 1999 Annual Conference, Chateau Laurier Hotel, Ottawa, 29 October 1999.
 
Dochas, The Irish Association of Non-Governmental Development Organisations, What Happened to Human Security?, Draft One, April 2007.
 
Edson, Sara, Human Security: An Extended and Annotated International Bibliography, Centre for History and Economics, King's College, University of Cambridge, 2001. (PDF document)
 
European Training and Research Centre for Human Rights and Democracy, Understanding Human Rights - Manual on Human Rights Education, (Edited by Wolfgang Benedek), May 2003
 
Gasper, Des, The Idea of Human Security, Institute for Social Studies, GARNET Working Papert No.28, 2008. (PDF document)
 
Gasper, Des, Human Rights, Human Needs, Human Development, Human Security: Relationships between four international 'Human Discourses', Forum for Development Studies No.1, 2007.
 
Green, Duncan, From Poverty to Power: How Active Citizens and Effective States can Change the World, Oxfam International, 2008. (PDF document)
 
Hampson, Fen Osler, Working Program Track on Human Security, Helsinki Process on Globalization and Democracy, 1 October 2003. (MS PowerPoint presentation)
 
Henk, Dan, Human Security: Relevance and Implications, Parameters, Summer 2005, p. 91-106. (PDF document)

Human Security Center, Human Security Brief 2007, University of British Colombia, Canada, 2007. (PDF document)
 
Human Security Report Project, Mini Atlas of Human Security, 2008.
 
Human Security Unit, Human Security for All - Integrated Responses to Protect and Empower People and Communities: A Look at Nine Promising Efforts, Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, 2006.
 
Human Security Study Group (Centre for the Study of Global Governance), A European Way of Security, Madrid, November, 2007. (PDF document)
 
International Labor Organization, Economic Security for a Better World, September 2004.
 
Japan Center for International Exchange (JCIE), Tokyo, Japan. Since the late 1990s, JCIE has been actively exploring the potential of human security as a new policy framework and has sought ways to translate the concept into concrete action. For a list of publications on human security, please go to: http://www.jcie.or.jp/thinknet/hsecurity.html
 
Japan Institute of International Affairs, In Quest of Human Security, conference report of the JIIA 40th Anniversary Symposium, Tokyo, 2001. (PDF document)
 
King, Gary and Christopher J. L. Murray, Rethinking Human Security, Political Science Quarterly, Vol.116, No.4, p.585-610, 2001-02. (PDF document)
 
Liotta, P.H., Boomerang Effect: The Convergence of National and Human Security, in Security Dialogue, Vol.33, No.4, p.473-488, 2002. (PDF Document)

Liotta, P.H., Owen, Taylor, Why Human Security?, in The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, Winter/Spring 2006.

de Larrinaga, Miguel and Marc G. Doucet, Sovereign Power and the Biopolitics of Human Security, Security Dialogue Vol.39, No. p.517, 2008. (PDF document)
 
MacFarlane S. Neil and Yuen Foong-Khong, Human Security and the UN: A Critical History, United Nations Intellectual History Project, 2006.
 
McRae, Robert and Don Hubert, Human Security and the New Diplomacy: Protecting People, Promoting Peace, McGill-Queen's University Press, Canada, 2001.
 
Narayan, Deepa, Robert Chambers, Meera Kaul Shah, and Patti Petesch, Anxiety, Fear and Insecurity, Chapter 8, Voices of the Poor: Crying Out for Change. Published for the World Bank, Oxford University Press, New York, 2000. (PDF document)
 
Nef, Jorge, Human Security, Mutual Vulnerability and Sustainability: A Critical View, The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University, Winter/Spring 2006.
 
Nef, Jorge, Human Security and Mutual Vulnerability, 2nd Edition, International Research Development Centre, Canada, 1999.
 
Oberleitner, Gerd, Human Security: A Challenge to International Law?, Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions, Vol.11, p.185-203, 2005.
 
Owen, Taylor, Human Security - Conflict, Critique and Consensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold-Based Definition, Special Section: What is 'Human Security'?, Security Dialogue, September, Vol.35, No.3, p.345-387, 2004.
 
Social Watch, Social Watch Report 2004, Fear and Want: Obstacles to Human Security, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2004.
 
Stites, Elizabeth and Jennifer Leaning, Human Security in Angola: A  Retrospective Study, Harvard School of Public Health, December 2002.
 
Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou, Human Security: Concepts and Implications, with an Application to Post-Intervention Challenges in Afghanistan, Paris, Les Etudes du CERI, n°117-118, September 2005. (Abstract in French)
 
Tadjbakhsh, Shahrbanou, Human Security: The Seven Challenges of Operationalizing the Concept, paper presented as part of the UNESCO discussion "Human Security: 60 Minutes to Convince", Paris, 13 September 2005.
 
Tadjbakhsh, Sharbanou, and Chenoy, Anuradha, Human Security, Concepts and Implications, London, Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics,  2006.
 
Trilateral Commission, The New Challenges to International, National and Human Security Policy, Plenary Meeting in Warsaw, 7-10 May 2004.
 
United Nations, 2005 World Summit Outcome, United Nations, New York, 2005.
 
United Nations, Delivering as One, Report of Secretary General's High-level Panel on UN System-wide Cohernence in Areas of Development, Humanitarian Assistance and the Environment, United Nations, New York, 2006.
 
United Nations, General Assembly Thematic Debate on Human Security, United Nations, New York, 2008.
 
United Nations, Letter dated 13 February 2008 from the Permanent Representatives of Japan and Mexica to the United Nations addressed to the President of the General Assembly, United Nations, New York, 2008.
 
United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Regional Development Dialogue, numerous issues focusing on human security.
 
United Nations Development Prgramme (UNDP), What will it take to achieve the Millennium Development Goals, 2010
 
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Security Today and Tomorrow. Thailand National Human Development Report, 2010
 
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Investing in Human Security for a Future State. Palestinian Human Development Report, 2010
 
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Human Development Report 1994 - New Dimensions of Human Security, Oxford University Press, 1994.
 
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), SecuriPax Forum, publications by UNESCO and others on human security.

 

 

 

 

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