HUMAN SECURITY AND DEVELOPMENT

概要

Human insecurity is becoming ever more visible across the world and decades of failed development policies and projects call for a fundamental rethink. Despite the superficial “face-lifts” that development has been undergoing every decade for the past 70 years, it has been fundamentally based on the same assumptions and has operated through the same methods. We cannot expect different results while constantly applying the same methods!! We have assumed that state and market institutions are able to provide us with the care and protection on which our well-being and happiness depend. However, we are witnessing not only an increased failure of these major institutions to deliver on their promises, but more importantly, they are producing the opposite results to the aims for which they were created in the first place. I argue therefore that our assumptions and expectations of what state and market institutions should provide us in terms of human security and development need to change as well!! To prove my argument I will engage with you in a series of debates surrounding seemingly very simple but crucial questions linked to our human security. What does it mean to be "human" in the age of artificial intelligence? What does "securing" the human entail? What is "the state" and how does it provide for our human security? How do we define "nature and environment", "poverty, scarcity and need", “food and nutrition”, "conflict and violence" and how are they related to our human security? What is “education” and how can we educate FOR human security in the 21st century? By the end of this class I guarantee you will have found YOUR OWN answers and reached your own conclusions about human security and development.

目標

This alternative introduction to human security flips the question usually put by scholars in the field. Instead of focusing on human "INSECURITY" that is usually associated with developing countries and the most extreme cases of people caught in life and death situations where the focus is placed on survivability, I propose to ask the questions of "what IS human security?" and "where does it emerge from?" and to investigate/assess together with you the degree to which our advanced capitalist societies are capable of providing human security for their citizens. By turning the question inward, I intend to critically engage you with our own societies and communities, to objectively understand our own worldview and behavior in an attempt to become aware of OUR OWN ROLE in ensuring human security in OUR OWN COMMUNITIES AND BEYOND. My intention is to create an open and honest space for thinking beyond our "mental frames" and "comfort zones" so that we can see where real solutions to our current problems may lie. After all, as Einstein famously argued, we cannot solve a problem with the same thinking as the one that created it!

授業外の学習

Review previous class 90 minutes Prepare for the following class and do the readings 100 minutes

所要時間: 190 minutes per lecture