Human Insecurity: Global Structures of Violence

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Bloomsbury 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.

David Roberts claims that by facing up to this relationship between social structures and massive avoidable human suffering we can create another system less prone to global violence. This book is a powerful intervention in the debate on human security and an urgent call to face up to our responsibilities to the millions killed needlessly each year.

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... noted also that , complicating the matter further , women are killed by men for reasons that may have little to do with ' honour ' ; but ' honour ' may be used to defend or explain the action ( Welchman and Hossain 2005 : 8 ) ...
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... noted above are only the institutions and specific practices that derive from their ideas , beliefs and value systems . They are only physical and psychological manifestations of belief structures that are rarely ever considered broadly ...
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... noted earlier the universality of tales such as that of Adam and Eve , for example , which from the very earliest expression underscore other , more conscious understandings of the for- mation of the gendered world around us - although ...

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Thinking about security and violence
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About the author (2008)

David Roberts is Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Ulster. He is the Convenor and Chair of the British International Studies Association Human Security Working Group, external examiner with the Royal University of Phnom Penh and the University of Coventry, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and International Affairs, University of Bristol. He has published a previous monograph on Human Insecurity (Zed 2008) and another on postconflict democratization in Cambodia, and will publish in 2010 a monograph critiquing Liberal peacebuilding in developing societies that proposes an alternative 'everyday lives' approach to the postconflict challenge which invigorates positive peace through structural and institutional reforms to the Liberal Project. He has published more than 30 other chapters and articles in peer reviewed outlets on human security and peacebuilding.

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TitleHuman Insecurity: Global Structures of Violence
AuthorDavid Roberts
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 2008
ISBN1842778242, 9781842778241
Length208 pages
  
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