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Security based on needs of people & communities not states

the concept has been widely debated and taken on broad and narrow definitions, but it refocuses conceptions of ‘security’ away from an exclusive preoccupation with the state and military threats and towards the needs of individual people and communities

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Security based on needs of people & communities not states
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Advocates bottom up approach to security
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Concept connects peace, security & development at local & global level
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Developed in 1990s through key UN reports & governments
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Embraces cosmopolitan principles, esp. human rights & governance
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Insists state serves the people from which it should draw legitimacy
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Much broader conception of security
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Strong connections with Critical Security Studies & feminism
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Summarised as “Freedom from want, freedom from fear"
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