ABSTRACT
Human security is concerned with how people live and how opportunities are provided or denied for helping them make choices about their living. Thus, freedom from want, one of the four fundamental freedoms, has come to occupy the attention of the world in the past decades. Environmental degradation, migration and poverty therefore have come to be accepted as bigger challenges in achieving human security than physical security concerning the lives of nations and peoples. Keeping this in mind, this collection of articles on human security explores country-specific and theme-related perspectives from South Asia. In doing so, it attempts to evolve a conceptual understanding of human security and develop a people-centric understanding of the challenges to achieving it in a South Asian context drawing on case studies on a wide variety of contexts including the environmental degradation that is threatening the world today. Addressing environmental degradation and development-induced migrations which are quietly displacing millions of people across South Asia; it focuses on issues that directly influence peoples’ lives and day-to-day activities. This volume certainly enhances the quality of literature on the subject and helps not only scholars but also policy planners/makers to understand the nuances of various issues related to human security in South Asia.
