Human Security

Taylor Owen is the Research Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at the the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. He is the founding Editor of the Canadian International Council′s international affairs platform OpenCanada.org, and the Research Director of the Munk Debates. His Doctorate is from the University of Oxford where he was Trudeau Scholar. He was previously a Banting Post Doctoral Fellow at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at UBC, lecturer at the UBC Graduate School of Journalism, Fellow in the Genocide Studies Program at Yale University, Research Fellow at the Center for Global Governance at the LSE, Researcher at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo and an Action Canada Fellow.

• VOLUME ONE: CONCEPT AND CRITIQUEWhat Is Security? - Emma Rothschild Redefining Security - Jessica Tuchman MathewsHuman Security - Sadako Ogata and Johan CelsProtecting and Empowering the PeopleConceptual Framework for Human Security - Sabina Alkire Global Insights - Lloyd AxworthyHuman Security and Global Governance: Putting People FirstSecurity Studies and the End of the Cold War - David BaldwinDeepening the Human Security Debate - Pauline Ewan Beyond the Politics of Conceptual ClarificationSecuring Humanity - Des GasperSituating ′Human Security′ as Concept and Discourse The Security Puzzle - Helga Haftendorn Theory-Building and Discipline-Building in International SecurityHuman Security - Dan Henk Relevance and Implications Human Security - Yuen Foong KhongA Shotgun Approach to Alleviating Human Misery? Human Security - Gerd Oberlietner A Challenge to International Law? Editors′ Note - J. Peter Burgess and Taylor OwenA Political Worldview - Ramesh ThakurA New Scientific Field and Policy Lens - Lloyd AxworthyA Concept in Need of a Global Policy Response - Fen Osler Hampson An Idea That Works in Practice - Don HubertA Field of Overlaps and Interactions - Peter UvinA Bridge between the Interconnected Challenges Confronting the World - Caroline ThomasPsychosocial Well-Being over Time - Jennifer Leaning An Holistic Paradigm - Amitav Acharya A Challenge to the Power over Knowledge of Traditional Security Studies - Kyle Grayson A Normatively Attractive but Analytically Weak Concept - Edward NewmanA Vital Core That Must Be Treated with the Same Gravitas as Traditional Security Threats - Sabina AlkireAn Expression of Threats versus Capabilities across Time and Space - Kanti BajpaiA Broad Concept That Encourages Interdisciplinary Thinking - Donna Winslow and Thomas Hylland EriksenA Concept in Search of Relevance - P.H. LiottaA Concept Still on the Margins, but Evolving from Its Asian Roots - Paul Evans A Stalled Initiative - Astri SuhrkeA Signifier of Shared Values - Andrew MackThe Key to a Powerful Agenda, if Properly Delimited - Keith Krause A Useful Concept That Risks Losing Its Political Salience - S. Neil MacfarlaneA Reductionist, Idealistic Notion That Adds Little Analytical Value - Barry BuzanStill an Inscrutable Concept - Roland Paris Human Security - Taylor OwenConflict, Critique and Consensus: Colloquium Remarks and a Proposal for a Threshold-Based DefinitionGlobal Inequality and Human Security - Amartya Sen Global Governance, Development and Human Security - Caroline ThomasExploring the Links The Idea of Human Security - Des GasperHuman Security - Roland Paris Paradigm Shift or Hot Air?New Dimensions of Human Security - Human Development Report (United Nations Development Program)Human Security and the United Nations - Neil MacFarlane and Yuen Foong KhongHuman Security - Mary Kaldor and Mary Martin Sabine Selchow A New Strategic Narrative for EuropeHuman Security - Amitav Acharya East versus West VOLUME TWO: AS CRITICAL THEORYCritical Voices and Human Security - Ryerson ChristieTo Endure, to Engage or to Critique? Human Security - Annick WibbenToward an Opening The Tyranny of Benevolence - William Bain National Security, Human Security and the Practice of StatecraftGirl Soldiers - Mary-Jane Fox Human Security and Gendered InsecurityThe Human and the Social - Des Gasper A Comparison of the Discourses of Human Development, Human Security and Social Quality Gender, Resistance and Human Security - Gunhild Hoogensen and Kirsti Stuvøy Human Security as Global Security - Ralph Pettman Reconceptualizing Strategic Studies Human Security as Power/Knowledge - Kyle GraysonThe Bio-Politics of a Definitional Debate ′Doing′ Security as though Humans Matter - Heidi Hudson A Feminist Perspective on Gender and the Politics of Human Security Critical Human Security Studies - Edward NewmanHuman Security and the Governmentality of Neo-liberal Mobility - Thanh-Dam Truong A Feminist PerspectiveHuman Security, Neo-Liberalism and Corporate Social Responsibility - Kyle Grayson Sovereign Power and the Bio-Politics of Human Security - Miguel De Larrinaga and Marc Doucet The Civilized Self and the Barbaric Other - Ikechi Mgbeoji Imperial Delusions of Order and the Challenges of Human SecurityIndividual and Societal Dimensions of Security - Pinar BilginCritical Theory and Security Studies - Keith KrauseThe Research Programme of ′Critical Security Studies′Globalization and Human Security - Earl Conteh-MorganA Neo-Gramscian PerspectiveHuman Security and Constructivism - Edward Newman Paradigms in Conflict - Mohammad Nuruzzaman The Contested Claims of Human Security Critical Theory and FeminismReview Essay - David Chandler Human Security: The Dog That Didn′t Bark The Critique That Doesn′t Bite - Taylor OwenA Response to David Chandler′s Human Security: The Dog That Didn′t Bark Power and Agency in the Human Security Framework - Tara McCormackVOLUME THREE: POLICY AND ADVOCACYHuman Security′s Future in Regional Co-Operation and Governance? - Melissa CurleySecuring Humans in a Dangerous World - M. Duffield and N. WaddellJapan′s Foreign Policy and Human Security - Bert EdströmPulpit Diplomacy - Fen Osler Hampson and Dean OliverA Critical Assessment of the Axworthy DoctrineHuman Security - Richard Jolly and Deepayan Basu RayNational Perspectives and Global Agendas: Insights from National Human Development Reports The Utility of the Human Security Agenda for Policy Makers - Pauline Kerr, Williem Tow and Marianne HansonInstituting and Projecting Human Security - George MacLean A Canadian Perspective Much Ado about Little - Janne Haaland MatlaryThe European Union and Human Security The Second Generation of Human Security - Mary Martin and Taylor OwenLessons from the United Nations and European Union Experience The Utility of Human Security - Nicholas Thomas and William Tow Sovereignty and Humanitarian InterventionHumanitarianism and Human Security in a Post-9/11 World - Jide Martyns OkekeCollaborative Human Security? The United Nations and Other Actors in Cambodia - Sorpong PeouHuman Security and the Interests of States - Astrid Suhrke Boomerang Effect - P.H. Liotta The Convergence of National and Human SecurityHuman Security in Practice - David Bosold and Sascha WerthesCanadian and Japanese Experiences Human Security from Paradigm Shift to Operationalization - Marlies GlasiusJob Description for a Human Security Worker VOLUME FOUR: METHODOLOGIES AND TOOLSThe Idea of Human Security - Kanti BajpaiNotes on Developing a Human Security/Insecurity Index - Peter BreckeTrue Measures of Human Security - Paz ButtedahlHuman Security during Complex Humanitarian Emergencies - Lincoln Chen and Aafje RietveldRapid Assessment and Institutional Capabilities Toward Modeling Regionally Specific Human Security Using GIS - Taylor Owen and O. SlaymakerCase Study Cambodia Human Development Index - Amartya Sen and Sudhir AnandMethodology and Measurement Human Security - Jennifer Leaning and Sam ArieA Framework for Analysis in Settings of Crisis and TransitionRethinking Human Security - Gary King and Christopher MurrayThe Index of Human Insecurity - Steve Lonergan Proposal for the Creation of a Human Security Report - Harvard Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict ResearchData Issues in the Study of Conflict - Paul Collier and Anke HoefflerArchitecture for Early Warning at the United Nations Based on Human Security Indicators - Sundara Vadlamudi Measuring Human Security - Taylor Owen Methodological Challenges and the Importance of Geographically Referenced Determinants