Sage Publications Human Security (SAGE Library of International Relations)

Human security is understood as a response to the proliferation of new security threats which fit awkwardly within the relatively narrow confines of the traditional, state-centric national security paradigm. Human Security is a field of study that has emerged over the last 20 years. It is a sub-section of security studies but encompass a diverse range of academic disciplines and policy discourses (development studies, international relations, environmental studies, public health, economics, gender issues, human rights and foreign policy). It is also increasingly being adopted by policy-makers from individual nation states (Canada and Japan), bodies (European Union and the African Union) as well as institutionalized by the United Nations, and used by non-state actors in such as NGOs and the corporate sector. This volume serves as a valuable compilation of a disparate discourse, and a core reference for scholars and practitioners in a wide range of fields. Volume One: Concept and Critique Volume Two : As Critical Theory Volume Three: Policy and Advocacy Volume Four: Methodologies and Tools About the Author 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.