Human Insecurity: Global Structures of ViolenceBloomsbury Academic, 2008 - 208 pages Human Insecurity is concerned with our refusal to confront the millions of avoidable deaths of women and children each year. Those missing millions are rarely the subject of conventional security studies, yet such avoidable deaths are a vital part of the notion of 'security' more broadly understood. The book argues that such deaths are caused by the man-made structures of neoliberalism and 'andrarchy' and argues that the debate on human security can be reinvigorated by looking at the unarmed, civilian role in causing the deaths of millions of innocent people; from child deaths from preventable disease to honour killings. |
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... deaths per 100,000 live births ' with most occurring in Africa and Asia ( ibid .: 32 ) . Typically , these figures will be unrepresentative of reality . The WHO ' estimates that maternal deaths are under - reported by as much as 50 ...
... deaths than does war ' . He adds that ' the number of deaths in an average year from all structural causes is a matter of conjecture , but it probably totals over 50 million ' ( 2004 : 300 ) . The UNDP estimates the figure at half this ...
Global Structures of Violence David Roberts. differential between war and war - related deaths , on the one hand , and deaths from U5MR , infanticide and maternal mortality , on the other . It is difficult to present a conventional table ...
Contents
Thinking about security and violence | 12 |
maternal mortality | 69 |
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