Empowerment and Protection - Stories of Human Security Oct. 2014

Indigenous Peoples’ traditional leader, Mindanao

This publication shares and analyses people’s sense of threats
and safety through the lens of human security. Spanning six
regions of the world, it presents the accounts of people living
in Afghanistan, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Zimbabwe,
Ukraine, Mexico, and the Philippines. As a people-centred
approach to understanding threats to people’s livelihoods, safety
and dignity, human security is useful as both an analytical tool
and an operational approach for addressing socio-political
problems. Reflecting and comparing these stories, we focus
on human security as not only an outcome but as a process of
dialogue and relationship-building. The citizen-state relationship
emerges as a primary tool and indicator of human security, where
context-specific protection and empowerment strategies go hand
in hand.

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Empowerment and Protection Stories of Human Security | Edited by Kristen Wall, Jenny Aulin and Gabriëlla Vogelaar

“ ur history, our territories
O
and the land interconnect
us. In the same way that
everything is interconnected,
human security is a given
right to us as well as
an obligation. I give it and
I expect it at the same time.”

Towards a
people-state
partnership
for human
security

Empowerment
and Protection
Stories of Human Security
Edited by Kristen Wall, Jenny Aulin and Gabriëlla Vogelaar