The nature of human security is changing globally: interstate conflict and even intrastate conflict may be diminishing worldwide, yet threats to individuals and

How do understandings of the relationships between gender, violence, security and the international inform policy and practice in which these notions are centra

The book asserts that human security derives from the experience and expectation of human well-being which depends on four essential conditions: a life sustaini

Reports from war zones often note the obscene victimization of women, who are frequently raped, tortured, beaten, and pressed into sexual servitude. Yet this re

This book employs the concept of human security to show what the term means from the perspective of women in Afghanistan. It engages with a well-established deb