Which definition of human security does the Human Security Report Project (HSRP) work with?
We work with the narrow definition, which takes violence to be the main indicator of human insecurity. Our reasons for adopting the narrow definition of human security are largely pragmatic. As there are already several reports examining trends in global poverty, disease, and other indicators of human insecurity covered by the broad definition, there would be little point in duplicating their analyses. Moreover, it is necessary to isolate the trends in organized violence from the trends in poverty, for example, in order to analyze the relationship between the two threats.
