Abstract Homeland security has proven to be an elusive concept. There are at least seven U.S. government definitions of homeland security that approach different threats with distinct policies. One claim about homeland security is that it is about hometown security. This case study sought to identify and examine the activities and perceptions of local security…
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Re-conceptualizing Environmental Security as Resilience: Strategic Planning for Human and National Security
ABSTRACT This paper presents a new conceptual framework for environmental security as an integral and vital component of human security. The framework ties extreme environmental events and climatic anomalies to the destabilization of a country or region, which in turn can lead to instability, conflicts, weakening of the national economy, or exposure of vulnerabilities in…
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Threats to Human Security and Migration in Guatemala
ABSTRACT This study uses survey data gathered in Guatemala in 2006, 2008, 2010, and 2012 to investigate the effects of crime victimization, personal insecurity, family income, personaleconomic situation, and national economic situation on Guatemalans’ intentions to migrate to another country. Findings from a logistic regression model suggest that Guatemalans who have been victims of crime…
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Gender and Human Security – Bureaucracy and the Marginalisation of Women: Cases from the Solomon Islands and India
ABSTRACT This paper looks at human security through the lens of the private space and structural violence, making links to the broader theoretical literature, in particular Patricia Owens who draws heavily in Hannah Arendt’s classic work on bureaucracies. It then uses two case one from the Solomon Islands in the Pacific and the other form…
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The Constant Threat to Peace and Liberty: The Caliphate and Jihad
ABSTRACT Since the 911 attacks, an immediate menace to our society has come from attacks by individuals or small teams practicing “leaderless resistance”. Certainly the perpetuators of these crimes follow a common theology/ideology, that of jihadist-Salafist from within Sunni Islam. But, while they followed the call to arms from religious leaders, their violent actions were…
