Arab Human Development Report 2009 Challenges To Human Security In The Arab Countries United Nations Development Programme Regional Bureau For Arab States by United Nations Development Programme. Regional Bureau For Arab States instant download after payment.

1 online resource (xvii, [265] pages) :, In Arab countries, a widespread lack of human security undermines human development, according to the Arab Human Development Report 2009: Challenges to Human Security in the Arab Countries. This report is prepared by independent scholars drawn from the region. The report argues that human security is a prerequisite for human development, and that the widespread absence of human security in Arab countries undermines people's options. Human security refers not only to questions of survival, but also basic needs such as access to clean water and quality of life concerns. Human security in the Arab countries is often threatened by unjust political, social, and economic structures; by competition for power and resources among fragmented social groups; and, in some cases, by the impacts of external military intervention, Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-218), The report in brief -- 1. Applying the concept of human security in the Arab countries -- 2. The environment, resource pressures and human security in the Arab countries -- 3. The Arab state and human security: performance and prospects -- 4. The personal insecurity of vulnerable groups -- 5. Challenges to economic security -- 6. Hunger, nutrition and human security -- 7. Approaching health through human security: a road not taken -- 8. Occupation, military intervention and human insecurity -- 9. Concluding reflections, Print version record, Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002, digitized 2011