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Advancing Human Security: New Strategic Thinking for Australia
Authors: Michael G. Smith and Jacqueline Whelan
Volume 4, Number 2 (Winter 2008), pp. 1-22.
Abstract
‘Human security’ presents an opportunity for Australia to embrace a more holistic approach to security that can accommodate the vulnerabilities of both the individual and the state, as well as help achieve the Millennium Development Goals. This article argues for the inclusion of human security as part of Australian Government strategic guidance to better shape Australia’s contribution in preventing and responding to complex emergencies and natural disasters. Six policy initiatives are recommended, centred on the inclusion of human security in new Australian strategic guidance.
About the Authors
Michael Smith is the CEO of Austcare, an Australian non-sectarian humanitarian aid and development organisation that has been active in more than 30 countries since 1967. He is a former Major General in the Australian Army, having served in Papua New Guinea, Cambodia, Kashmir and East Timor. With Dr Moreen Dee he is the author of Peacekeeping in East Timor: The Path to Independence (Lynne Rienner, Boulder & London, 2003) and “East Timor” in William Durch (ed) Twenty-first Century Peace Operations (USIP & Stimson Center, 2007). He is an Adjunct Professor at Griffith University, a member of the International Advisory Board of the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy at the Australian National University, and a member of the Foreign Minister’s National Consultative Committee on International Security Issues. msmith@austcare.org.au.
Jacqueline Whelan is a volunteer with Austcare. She has a BA (Hons) in History and a Masters in Development Studies from the University of New South Wales. jacquiwhelan@hotmail.com.
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