Research Handbook on International Law and Human Security. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Gerd Oberleitner.
• Editors: Oberleitner, Gerd
• Contents: Contents: Editor and contributors viii Introduction 1 Gerd Oberleitner PART I UNDERSTANDING HUMAN SECURITY IN INTERNATIONAL LAW: CONCEPT, PRACTICE, ACTORS 1 Human security and international law: why? how? 25 Shireen Daft 2 Security: national, international, human 40 Laura Neack 3 Human security and the United Nations 59 Alistair D. Edgar 4 Human security and non-state actors 75 Cedric Ryngaert PART II HUMAN SECURITY: PRESERVING PEACE AND PROTECTING PEOPLE 5 The Security Council: collective security and peacekeeping for human security 92 Hitoshi Nasu 6 Human security in armed conflict: norms, agendas and actors for protecting civilians 107 Miriam Bradley 7 Attaining human security by disarming 126 Denise Garcia 8 Managing transition and building peace from a human security perspective 145 Dahlia Simangan PART III PERSONAL SECURITY, HUMAN DIGNITY AND GLOBAL JUSTICE 9 Human rights and human security 162 Wolfgang Benedek 10 Transnational organised crime and terrorism as human security threats: international law's response 180 Sven Peterke and Pierre Hauck 11 Freedom from fear and freedom from want: key components of human security for women 208 Rashida Manjoo 12 The impacts of the International Criminal Tribunals on human security and human rights 226 James Meernik PART IV HUMAN SECURITY: CONFRONTING RISK, VULNERABILITY AND EXISTENTIAL CRISIS 13 Climate change as a human security crisis? 243 Benoit Mayer 14 Complementarity between human security and legal frameworks for humanitarian action 259 Dug Cubie 15 Human (in)security in transnational migration, refugee situations and internal displacement 273 Susana Ferreira PART V SOCIO-ECONOMIC HUMAN SECURITY IN AGENDA 2030 16 Human security, the UN development system and the SDGs 290 Des Gasper and Oscar A. Gómez 17 Human security: countering structural inequality and fostering resilience under international law 306 Dorothy Estrada-Tanck 18 Food security and the right to food: pillars of humanity arising from food and agriculture law 321 Gabriela Steier, Matthew Kang and Sahana Ramdas 19 Global health law: WHO, COVID-19, and human security 341 Lisa Forman PART VI REGIONAL HUMAN SECURITY PERSPECTIVES 20 Human security in Europe: the European Union and beyond 359 Iavor Rangelov 21 Human security: a Latin American perspective 375 Elizabeth Abi-Mershed and Verónica Gómez 22 The African Union as a human security arrangement 388 Samuel M. Makinda and F. Wafula Okumu 23 The emerging human security norm in East Asia: toward an epistemic community 406 Yoichi Mine and Ako Muto Index.
• Publisher Details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource (450 pages)
• Subjects: LAW -- Conflict of Laws; Private international law & conflict of laws; LAW -- International; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Security (National & International); LAW -- Reference; Terrorism law; Reference works
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800376977; 1800376979
• Related ISBNs: 9781800376960
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