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The 4th of December, Mr Josuke Ikeda, PhD candidate from Osaka University and fellow researcher in the Gender Law and Policy Center, Tohoku University, made a very insightful presentation about his posture on Human security from the International Relations perspective. The abstract of the paper that supported the presentation follows hereby:
Human security has been gaining considerable attentions both from academic and policy audiences, yet there remains one question on how to reconcile its two different types of nature: universal tenet of the concept and territorial character of its implimentation. This paper purports to give a positive answer to this poser by presenting three conditions. They are namely: (1) providing a universal moral foundation of human security, based on the view about human being and harm; (2) actualising the concept by combining international and global efforts, or through the mutual embedment between international policy and global governance; and (3) nevertheless always acknowledging its possible ‘‘failures’’ and thus preparing remedies for them.
The whole paper can be found here
Following discussion versed around:
- Moral foundation and normative character versus legal perspective.
- Harm vs. Suffering
- The appropriateness of emphasizing the "Japanese Experience"
- Top-down visions of Human Security versus Bottom-up
Please do not doubt to make any comment.
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