Taback Nathan, Coupland Robin
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Canada.
Med Confl Surviv. 2007 Jan-Mar;23(1):3-9. doi: 10.1080/13623690601084518.
During the 1990s medical studies using public health methodologies about injury and death due to weapons in conflict began to appear in the medical literature. The 1990s was also the period when the concept of human security was materialising in the development and humanitarian communities. Nowadays it is common for global organisations, governmental and non-governmental agencies, and academics to conduct scientific studies of human security. Many such studies gather evidence about human insecurity and these in turn lead to policy recommendations pertaining to improving human security. The data-to-policy process applies in this domain. In this article we propose that conceptual developments in human security and methods which generate scientific evidence of human security or insecurity have combined to create a new science: the science of human security. We describe key problems inherent in this new multidisciplinary science, some unique methodological challenges and new scientific opportunities.
在20世纪90年代，运用公共卫生方法对冲突中武器造成的伤亡进行的医学研究开始出现在医学文献中。20世纪90年代也是人类安全概念在发展和人道主义领域逐渐成形的时期。如今，全球组织、政府和非政府机构以及学者对人类安全进行科学研究已很常见。许多此类研究收集了关于人类不安全状况的证据，进而提出了与改善人类安全相关的政策建议。数据到政策的过程适用于这一领域。在本文中，我们提出人类安全方面的概念发展以及生成人类安全或不安全科学证据的方法相结合，创造出了一门新科学：人类安全科学。我们描述了这门新兴多学科科学中固有的关键问题、一些独特的方法挑战以及新的科学机遇。
