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The Human Security Report Project (HSRP) is a Peace and Conflict Studies research group. Based at Canada's Simon Fraser University's School for International Studies at Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia〔Human Security Report Project: (About the Project ) (accessed March 23, 2009).〕 It was formerly based at the University of British Columbia's Liu Institute for Global Issues in the (Human Security Centre ). == Publications and Services == The Project is known primarily for the Human Security Report 2005 that provided evidence that according to the Project's data and definitions, there had been a large decline in the number of wars, genocides and international crises since the end of the Cold War.〔Human Security Report 2005: (The HSR In the News ) (accessed May 25, 2008).〕〔Human Security Report 2005: (Overview ) (accessed March 22, 2009).〕〔The Project adopts the 'narrow' conception of Human Security. The distinction between the 'narrow' and 'broad' concepts of Human Security, is summarized here on the Human Security page.〕 Subsequently, the Project published the Human Security Brief 2006 that updated the core global trend data from the 2005 Report and the Human Security Brief 2007. The 2007 Brief demonstrated that there had been a sharp decline in the incidence of terrorist violence (measured in terms of numbers of fatalities) around the world. If fatalities from political violence against civilians perpetrated by non-state groups in Iraq are counted as deaths from terrorism the decline dated mid-2007. This claim was disputed in a press release from the University of Maryland's, START consortium .〔Human Security Brief 2007: (Chapter 1- Dying to Lose: Explaining the Decline in Global Terrorism ) (accessed March 22, 2009).〕〔University of Maryland Newsdesk: (Terrorism Fatalities Up, Not Down UMD Analysis Disputes New Report ) (accessed March 22, 2009).〕 However, START at that time only had incident data to 2004. Subsequent START reports confirmed the large decline in fatalities from terrorism in 2007. One problem with the START project's dataset is that it counts politically motivated killings of civilians in civil war by non-state actors as terrorism in some contexts, but not in others. In Iraq, for example, such killings are counted as acts of terrorism, but the very large number of comparable killings in sub-Saharan Africa's civil wars in the 1990s are not. Subsequent to the publication of the 2007 Brief the incidence of global terrorism has again increased with most of the increase being in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Further the 2007 Brief suggested positive change in sub-Saharan Africa's security landscape; the number of conflicts being waged in the region more than halved between 1999 and 2006.〔Human Security Brief 2007: (Chapter 2- Towards A New Peace in Africa? ) (accessed March 22, 2009).〕 In late October 2008, the Project published-in conjunction with the World Bank, the miniAtlas of Human Security.〔(miniAtlas of Human Security ) (accessed March 22, 2009).〕 This publication was produced in three languages and is an "at-a-glance guide to global security issues" using a selection of maps and graphics to illustrate security trends, and is part of the World Bank's miniAtlas series.〔〔(World Bank miniAtlas Series ) (accessed March 23, 2009).〕 There have been subsequent translations of the miniAtlas into Russia, Japanese and Arabic. In 2010 the Human Security Report Project launched the Human Security Report 2009/2010 at the United Nations. Part I of the Report examines "The Causes of Peace" since the end of World War II. Part II examines "The Shrinking Costs of War," paying particular attention to "indirect deaths" from war-exacerbated disease and malnutrition. Part III reviews recent trends in organized violence around the world. The hard copy version of the Report will be published by Oxford University Press early in 2011. The text of the Report is freely available online at www.hsrgroup.org. In addition to its publications, the Project runs several free e-services available in a number of delivery formats: *Human Security Gateway. *(Human Security Research ). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Human Security Report Project」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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