Series Editor
Professor Amitav Acharya (American University, Washington, DC)
Description
The aim of this series is to publish high quality book manuscripts that addresses human security issues in the contemporary world. The concept of human security, originally formulated in the Human Development Report of 1994, focuses on the safety and dignity of the individual, thereby moving the notion of security away from an exclusive focus on the state. The concept has assumed increasing importance as intra-state conflicts involving genocide and complex humanitarian emergencies proliferate and our increasingly globalized world confronts new transnational threats such as terrorism, pandemics and the myriad effects of global warming. Human security combines both freedom from fear (security from violence, reducing the human cost of violent conflict) and freedom from want (poverty and underdevelopment and the effects of globalization in exacerbating economic and social inequalities). Some of the key issues of human security include:
- Deaths and injuries from insurgency and armed conflict
- The problem of land mines, small arms, child soldiers
- Communal/caste violence
- Security of women and children
- Refugees and forced migration, including internally-displaced persons
- Food security
- Poverty, underdevelopment, inequity
- Resource depletion and environmental degradation leading to conflict
- Unemployment, lower life expectancy
- Health issues and challenges, including pandemics; lack of access to
- public health facilities and sanitation
- Lack of educational opportunities
We invite manuscripts (between 50,000 to 70,000 words) to be published under this
series. We will consider both monographs and edited volumes.
To contribute to this book series, contact editor@wspc.com
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