Human Security Journal

Volume 7, Summer 2008

After two years of existence, the Human Security Journal could not ignore the issue of the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) any longer. For some, the very controversial R2P is indeed part of the human security paradigm, even though others totally reject it. While the conflict in Darfur and an eventual military intervention are still in the center of attention, the existence of a right of interference deserves to be questionned. This is what the Journal is doing, by adopting a larger perspective than the only R2P. The choice to look, in this issue, at the narrow definition of human security—freedom from fear—advocated by the Canadian approach, shows our will to adopt a critical view on the concepts and their consequences, especially as it is not the approach taken by the Journal or the CERI Program for Peace and Human Security (CPHS).

http://www.peacecenter.sciences-po.fr/journal/issue7/hsj7_version_finale.pdf