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The Evolution of Human Security

The Evolution of Human Security. From Ideology to Action FOSS0003A Human Security in the Global Context Lecture Three 5 February 2008 Course blog: humansecurity.wordpress.com. Lecture Three: Agenda. Housekeeping - papers (topic, proposal), readings, Ghosts of Rwanda Review

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The Evolution of Human Security

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  1. The Evolution of Human Security From Ideology to Action FOSS0003A Human Security in the Global Context Lecture Three 5 February 2008 Course blog: humansecurity.wordpress.com

  2. Lecture Three: Agenda • Housekeeping - papers (topic, proposal), readings, Ghosts of Rwanda • Review • Lecture on the evolution of human security from an ideological perspective - The Story of Bernard Kouchner • Guest speaker: Bob Dietz, Asia Program Coordinator, Committee for the Protection of Journalists (www.cpj.org) • Tutorial - Discussion

  3. The Committee for the Protection of Journalists • An NGO dedicated to human security - “the responsibility to protect” • www.cpj.org

  4. Review • Human security as a new approach to diplomacy - peacekeeping > preventive diplomacy > intervention > the responsibility to protect > the responsibility to prevent • The Case of Rwanda - the inability - refusal - incapacity of the international community to react • Human rights in international relations and the question of intervention - protection of human rights as the basis for intervention • Human security from a political and ideological perspective

  5. The Story of Bernard Kouchner and Médicins Sans Frontières • Vietnam - 1946-1954: The First Indochina War - the end of colonial administration • Biafra conflict in southern Nigeria: 1967-1970 = a humanitarian catastrophe due to blockades that resulted in famine • 1968 - “Prague Spring” (Dubcek), protests in France, France becomes a nuclear power • The creation in 1971 of Médicins Sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors Without Borders) by French doctor Bernard Kouchner (born in 1939), among others (resistance/holocaust > ingérence, or intervention) • Vietnamese boat people (1979) • 1985-87 - genesis of “ingérence”, 1987 gathering in Paris of French intellectuals > recognition by UNGA of limited right of doctors and aid workers to deliver emergency aid in conflict zones • 1991 - UNSC authorizes humanitarian effort to help Iraqi Kurds • Bosnia (1992-95 war over independence, supported by Bosnians and Croats, or federation with Yugoslavia, preferred by Serbs, who were accused of ethnic cleansing) • Rwanda genocide (1994) • Kosovo (NATO campaign in 1999 against Serbs during which a million ethnic Albanians became refugees and several thousand were killed)

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