Research Handbook on International Law and Human Security

Edited by Gerd Oberleitner, UNESCO Chair in Human Rights and Human Security, Faculty of Law, University of Graz, Austria

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