Human Security in South Asia

Adluri Subramanyam Raju is Professor and former Head of UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Institute of South Asia Regional Cooperation (UMISARC) and Centre for South Asian Studies, and Coordinator of the UGC Centre for Maritime Studies, Pondicherry University, India. He is the recipient of the Mahbub Ul Haq Award (Regional Centre for Strategic Studies (RCSS), Colombo, 2003); Scholar of Peace Award (WISCOMP, New Delhi, 2002) and Kodikara Award (RCSS, Colombo, 1998). He was Salzburg Seminar Fellow (2006). He received the National Best Teacher Award (C.V.S. Krishnamurthy Theja Charities, Tirupati, 2017) and Best Teacher Award twice (Pondicherry University, 2013 & 2018). He was a visiting fellow at the Bandaranaike Centre for International Studies, Colombo, May 2012. He is on the editorial board of five journals.

Contents





Notes on Contributors


Acknowledgements


 





Introduction


Adluri Subramanyam Raju


 





Part I: Human Security in South Asia: Conceptual Issues





1. Human Security: A Conceptual Framework


Adluri Subramanyam Raju


 





2. Measurements of Human Security: A Conceptual Analysis


Swaran Singh and Archana R.


 





3. Human Security and Beyond


Santishree D. Pandit


 





4. Human Security in South Asia: The Locus of a Cooperative Context


I.P. Khosla


 





5. Is the Region Ready? Can the State Deliver? Essay from India


D. Suba Chandran


 





6. Is the Region Ready? Can the State Deliver? Essay from Pakistan


Salma Malik


 





Part II: Environmental Issues and Human Security


 





7. Water Insecurity in South Asia: Challenges of Human Development


Vandana Asthana


 





8. Climate Change and Human Security: A Case Study of Maldives


Rabindra Sen


 





9. Dangers of Electronic Waste in India: A Concern for Human Security


Gopalji Malviya


 





Part III: State, Development & Displacement in South Asia


 


10. Correcting Anomalies of a Dysfunctional State through Civil Society: Initiatives to Complement Global Attempts for Human Security


C.K. Lal


 


11. Human Development vis-a-vis Gross National Happiness in Bhutan: Challenges and Achievements


Maitreyee Choudhury


 





12. Linkages between Migration and Poverty in Nepal


Amrita Limbu


 





13. Sustainable Development Model: Experience from India


Rashmi Bhure


 





14. Reintegrating India’s Maoists: Surrender and Rehabilitation


P.V. Ramana


 





15. Development Induced Displacement: Case Studies from India


Apoorva R. Heroor and Praveen Tiwari