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UN, governments, business and civil society should work towards a common human security platform of learning and collaboration for different sectors and practice arenas. This could support information exchange, joint analysis and planning at different levels. As follow
up to UNGA resolution 66/290, a global working group could explore and enhance the operationalisation of the human security approach, linking human rights, development, peacebuilding, humanitarian and environmental concerns with effective governance and citizens empowerment.
UN, governments, academia, donors and civil society should invest in enhancing and applying methodologies that are consistent with human security principles. These should focus on process, and speciically address the subjectivity and agency of diverse people and groups targeted by research, projects or other interventions. They can build on existing experience in devising qualitative, bottom-up and gender-sensitive methods which can complement larger- scale indexes and surveys.
UN, member states, donors, and civil society should develop and implement protection and empowerment strategies which address, take into account and (where appropriate) build on existing coping strategies of the individuals, communities and societies of the context in question.
UN, member states and civil society should invest in national and local infrastructures and capacities for multi-stakeholder dialogue and state-citizen partnerships that can link human security analysis to possible solutions. Such initiatives can be supported through brokerage, resources and the provision of safe spaces by ‘outsiders’, but must ultimately be locally initiated and owned. As such, they should take into account cultural and gender sensitivities, roles and limitations to interactions such as civil-military engagements and local power dynamics.
UN, member states and civil society should support and implement public and policy-oriented awareness raising on the pillars and added value of human security at national and local levels. This should help to promote the articulation of human security needs and response measures, and make it meaningful beyond the global academic and policy circles.
Academia and think tanks should explore and position rule of law within the human security debate, and focus more on the empowerment aspect of human security strategies as well as on the interface and complementarity of protection and empowerment.
Invest in national and local 5 infrastructures and capacities
for multi-stakeholder dialogue
and state-citizen partnerships
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