Human Security: Relevance and Implications
In this article, Dan Henk examines the human security paradigm from the perspective of the role of the U.S. military in conflict and post-conflict situations. Henk explains how the human security paradigm provides some basis for answering the challenges posed by the common pathologies evident in failing and failed states. It calls attention to the necessity for a coordinated approach on the part of multiple actors (including residents and groups within the state itself) that simultaneously can deal with an array of present and future threats. At a minimum, this requires effective efforts to develop public-sector re-distributive capacity, private-sector employment opportunity, and the civil society safety net infrastructure, and also requires complementary development of justice protocols, with some provision for law enforcement, administration of justice, reinforcement of contract law, and protection of basic human rights. To access this article, please click here.
Henk, Dan, “Human Security: Relevance and Implications,” Parameters, Summer 2005, 91-106
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