HUMAN SECURITY NOW
Final Report of the Commission on Human Security
New York
May 1, 2003
Contents
- Members of the Commission on Human Security
- Foreword
Chapter 1: Human security now
- Security centred on people-not states
- Protection and empowerment for human security
- Interdependence and shared sovereignty
- Feature: Special issues in human security
Chapter 2: People caught up in violent conflict
- Changes in violent conflict
- Adopting a human security approach
- Policy conclusions
Chapter 3: People on the move
- Movements of people and state security
- Movements of people-and development
- Filling gaps in the institutional and normative frameworks
- Adopting a human security approach
- Policy conclusions
Chapter 4: Recovering from violent conflict
- Adopting a human security approach
- Ensuring public safety
- Meeting immediate humanitarian needs
- Launching rehabilitation and reconstruction
- Emphasizing reconciliation and coexistence
- Promoting governance and empowerment
- A new resource mobilization strategy
- Policy conclusions
Chapter 5: Economic security-the power to choose among opportunities
- Poverty and human security
- Adopting a human security approach
- Policy conclusions
Chapter 6: Better health for human security
- The links between health and human security
- Adopting a human security approach
- Policy conclusions
Chapter 7: Knowledge, skills and values for human security
- Connecting basic education to human security
- Adopting a human security approach
- Policy conclusions
Chapter 8: Ways to advance the security of people
- A global initiative for human security
- Addressing the basics
- Linking the many initiatives in a global alliance
- Outreach for human security
- About the Commission on Human Security
Boxes
1.1. Rethinking security: An imperative for Africa?
1.2. Human security and state security
1.3. Development, rights and human security
2.1. Conflict data are state-centred, not people-centred
2.2. Conflict and interpersonal violence
2.3. Compassion fatigue and humanitarian action
2.4. Civil society and conflict in multiethnic societies
3.1. Managing massive population movements-the break-up of the former Soviet Union
3.2. Ensuring refugee security
4.1. Gaps in today's post-conflict strategies
4.2. "Imagine Coexistence" projects in Rwanda and Bosnia
5.1. The challenge of extreme poverty
5.2. The market economy, non-market institutions and human security
5.3. The importance of foreign direct investment
5.4. Trade and protection
5.5. People's alternatives: the case of SEWA
5.6. Civil society and human security
6.1. Controlling infectious disease
6.2. Ensuring human security for women: reproductive health
6.3. What role can antiretroviral drugs play in combating the HIV/AIDS threat?
6.4. Minimizing threats to human security through global health surveillance
6.5. Community-based health insurance
7.1. Private sector partnerships for education in South Africa
7.2. Famines, wars and information media
7.3. Inflammatory education
7.4. The power of the information media for tolerance or terror
8.1. Global inequality and persistent conflicts
Tables
3.1. Countries with the largest number of international migrants, 2000
3.2. Countries with the largest number of internally displaced persons, 2002
4.1. Key human security clusters following violent conflict
6.1. Estimated global violence-related deaths, 2000
Figures
3.1. UNHCR data on refugee population and movements, 1992-2001
6.1. The global burden of disease, 2000
6.2. Health and human security linkages
6.3. Estimates of current and future HIV/AIDS-infected adults in next-wave countries
7.1. Estimated world illiteracy rates, by region and gender, 2000
See Report
Source:
Commission on Human Security
http://www.humansecurity-chs.org/