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Human security

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Human security

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  1. Human security skfisher2010@gmail.com | Gender & Health | Food & Environment

  2. Human Security • “In coming decades, changes in our environment and resulting upheavals- from droughts to inundated coastal areas to loss of arable land- lar likely to become a major driver of war and conflict” UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon • What is human security? • Does human security fit into global security? If so, how? If not, why not?

  3. Article discussion • For your group’s article: • What was the author’s main point? • What was the author’s primary evidence? • What critiques can you offer? • What perspective (if any) does the author take? • Slogan/bumper sticker/etc.

  4. Gender • How does gender impact IR? • How does gender impact “global security policy”? Should gender impact global security policy? If so, how?

  5. Health Security • Pandemics • 1918 flu pandemic • .5 M US dead, 38K Western Samoans died, 5% of population in Ghana • Spread in 4 mo. • Smallpox and the WTO • 1980- “cured” • GAVI- vaccinnes, Gates foundation • New: HIV/AIDs, Ebola, Hep C, Avian flu • Old: TB, malaria, (endemic in 109 co. w/1M deaths per yr) • Antibiotics overuse • What are the challenges of dealing with health issues?

  6. Food • How is food a security issue? • Photos: • What kinds of foods do these families eat? • How does globalization factor in to what people eat? • Which of these families might be considered “food insecure”? Why?

  7. Japan- $317.25 per week

  8. Italy - $260.11 per week

  9. Chad: $1.23 per week

  10. Kuwait: $221.45 per week

  11. US: $341.98 per week

  12. Mexico: $189.09 per week

  13. China: $155.06 per week

  14. Poland - $151.27 per week

  15. Egypt - $68.53 per week

  16. Ecuador - $31.55 per week

  17. Mongolia: $40.02 per week

  18. Great Britain: $253.15 per week

  19. Bhutan: $5.03 per week

  20. Germany: $500.07 per week

  21. Environment • 50K sq. miles of forest disappears per year (about the size of Greece) • Species extinctions 100- 100K X normal rate • Overfishing- both economic and nutritional issue • 1980s, average of 5.5 billion tons of CO2 • Projected to be 11 B tons per year by 2030 • Is this a security threat? How?

  22. Environmental security • 1986 Chernobyl • 2K dead in Bhopal, India 1984 result of gas leak • Union Carbide plant- 200K injured • 1952 death rate in London tripled for 4 days due to “Great Smog.” • 4K deaths immediately, 8K later

  23. War related environmental threats • “Stealing” water • Done for thousands of years • Oil • Iraqi military lit 3mo. Global supply of oil on fire retreating from Kuwait in 1991 • Extinction of species • DRC & Rwanda’s gorillas • Buildup to war & hazards post war • Radioactive waste

  24. Socratic dialogue • A theorist and a theorist walk into a bar and talk about issue. • From a theory perspective, issue is like (analogy). • Theorist/theory: realist, liberal, constructivist, Marxist, feminist, mercantilist, liberal (economic sense) • Issue: human security, health security, environmental security, gender issues, food security

  25. UNFCCC- Primary documents • Who is the primary audience for these documents? • How is this information presented? • What kind of language to these documents employ? • What interests/perspectives are represented in there documents? • What aims might the UNFCCC have? Do those aims come through in these documents? • Did anything surprise you about these documents? • What types of power do these documents represent?

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