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This class examines the ways in which people seek protection from harm, shifting the point of reference of security from the defense of the state against foreign military threats to the protection of individuals from a range of threats (which can be caused by states or non-state actors) that are more in line with today’s interconnected and globalized world. These include terrorism, environmental disasters, human rights violations, cyber threats, pandemics, migration, etc. The class will also cover humanitarian intervention and peacebuilding, structural violence, UNDP as a proponent of the concept of human security, technology and conflict, and gender and race as intervening variables in who is protected and what means are used to protect them, among other topics. <a href="http://bit.ly/1bebp5s" target="_blank">Click here to see evaluations, syllabi, and faculty bios</a>