Debates about Peace and Security – Feminist Paradigm
Debates about Peace and Security – Feminist Paradigm

Author(s): Nerzuk Ćurak
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Security and defense
Published by: Sarajevo Open Centre
Keywords: gender; security; peace; feminism; UN; human rights;
Summary/Abstract: During the long historical existence, from the early human communities to the modern capitalist society, security manifested itself as something inherently human, as an internal demand of anthropology faced with unfathomable forces of nature. However, the historical development of social relations established the security both as an organised form of human communities, through which an instinctive dimension of human nature is socialised, collectivised, institutionalised, made utilitarian... The useful function of security has primarily been reflected, throughout history, in the need of a human being to manufacture, in accordance with the degree of mental and psycho-social development, an arsenal of protective resources which guarantee successful opposition against the untamed forces of nature, adversaries among fellow human beings and against dangers created by people themselves, because they did not respect the finality of the earth.

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