#human security

That’s the other problem with human security: they’re allowed to give up.

It is imperative that the Indian state works more towards strengthening accessibility to rights and dignity to its citizens before jumping the bandwagon and ridding the country of its supposedly illegal immigrant population. Furthermore, if citizens’ rights in Kashmir can be lifted at any time due to national security concerns (even without the formal declaration of an Emergency), it should be a matter of grave distress to Indians in other parts of the country, as their citizenship has the potential to be threatened at any point without following due processes. At any given point, human security must not be lost in efforts to maintain national security, and citizenship, being the guarantor of human security, must be upheld at all times.

The liberal interpretation of violence ignores the role of violence in maintaining power relations between individuals and in society more broadly. The establishment of a private sphere, including family life, combined with the liberal presupposition of a rational subject whose specific embodiment is irrelevant makes the political and legal system incapable of addressing the issue of domestic violence. Just as feminist political theorists have critiqued liberalism for being unable to adequately address violence in the private sphere of the family, feminist theorists in International Relations have critiqued traditional IR theory for not being able to 'see' certain forms of violence, including violence that takes place far away from the high-level decision-making of heads of state, generals, and so forth. While these types of violent politics in IR overwhelmingly involve men, the violence that affects women—such as wartime rape, civilian victimization, the disproportionate effects on women of sanctions, infrastructural damage, refugee crises, famine, and the broader destruction of the social order—often takes place 'off the radar' of IR theory. The international arena is the public sphere writ large, with war in particular being a separate and exceptional activity that takes place far form 'the home front.' When women do appear in stories of violence in IR, they are in roles that we expect of mothers, wives, nurses, victims, and 'beautiful souls.'

Prompt #61

Part I - United Nations Chief of police summit (UNCOPS 2024).