Rethinking Human Security in the Post-COVID-19 World - Lessons Learned from the Human-centric Approach to Health Security

Ćurčić, Slađana (2024) Rethinking Human Security in the Post-COVID-19 World - Lessons Learned from the Human-centric Approach to Health Security. In: Disaster construction and reconstruction: lessons from COVID-19 for ethics, politics and law. Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd, pp. 112-131. ISBN 978-86-7093-271-5

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is an example of the health-security nexus, as a topic of increasing importance in security studies. Speaking broadly, this perspective is close to the political construction of the health threats, but depends on the approach to health security we take. Specifically, the aim of this paper is to analyze COVID-19 as a health threat through the human-centric approach to health security and to consider the relevance of this approach in the “post-COVID-19 context”. The research question is: what is the special value of this approach in the conceptualization of COVID-19 and future health security threats, both in terms of theoretical contribution and strategic and policy solutions? The paper is based on an academic literature review, and secondary data analysis relevant to the assessment of the state of human security, like the Human Development Index. The paper is structured as follows: in the introductory part, academic perspectives on health security are presented. Then, through the seven dimensions of the human security concept, it is analyzed how COVID-19 threatened human security. The next part considers the char- acteristics of a human-centric approach to health security in the COVID-19 context. Finally, the theoretical and practical implications of the human security analysis of COVID-19 and its importance for the health security field, are discussed. It is concluded that rethinking the human security concept in the post-COVID-19 context could contribute both to clarifying the human-centered approach to health security and redefining the concept of health security itself.

Item Type:	Book Section
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Depositing User:	Mr Petar Milutinović
Date Deposited:	14 Nov 2024 15:20
Last Modified:	14 Nov 2024 15:20
URI:	http://repo.ies.rs/id/eprint/219

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