Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-140) and index.

Abstracts -- Rethinking human security / Pierre Sané -- Human security and human rights interaction / Wolfgang Benedek -- Conceptualising the environmental dimension of human security in the UN / Hans Günter Brauch -- The ethical challenges of human security in the age of globalisation / J. Peter Burgess -- Building the agenda of human security : Policy and practice within the human security network / Keith Krause -- Gender aspects of human security / Ghada Moussa -- Basic elements of a policy framework for human security / Paul Oquist -- The uncertain future of human security in the UN / Taylor Owen.

This book provides seven studies that addressmajor issues such as the human rights and human security nexus, gender aspects of human security, ethical and environmental challenges, human security as a basic element for a policy framework, the human security agenda developed by the Human Security Network, and debates on human security within the United Nations.: Building on its variety of themes, the book takes account of the complexity and scope of the concept of human security, and proposes thereby to refresh and enrich discussion; Contributors are internationally renowned experts in the dif.

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