Bulletin n. 2/2011
October 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Gibson Ian
    Human Security: A Framework for Peace Constructs, Gendered Perspectives and Cosmopolitan Security
    in Peace, Conflict and Development , Issue 17, August ,  2011 ,  84-101
    This paper seeks to detail the emerging security concept of human security and place it as both a framework for peace constructs and as a cosmopolitan formulation of security. While human security remains contested, it nevertheless contains possibilities for a more equitable reading of security particularly when seen in relation to the suggestions of the 1999 Hague Agenda for Peace. The Hague Agenda drew particular attention to the importance of human security and how it encompassed citizenship formulations that in turn emphasized the importance of citizen rights detailed in the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Furthermore, the Hague Agenda remains important because it acknowledges a gender perspective both in peace formulations and security formulations countering ‘traditional’ militarist notions, and as such underpins current peace education theory as proposed by actors such as Betty Reardon. Reardon has suggested in her work that a gender perspective would more firmly establish a cosmopolitan perspective. By conflating human security with a cosmopolitan perspective and employing the Hague Agenda as a working framework for peace this paper argues that this linkage would fully incorporate all actors of all areas in a quest for a peaceful future. Full text available online: http://www.peacestudiesjournal.org.uk/dl/Iss%2017%20Art%2027%20Final.pdf.
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