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This chapter comprises an initial study to introduce the reader to both theoretical (human security) and methodological (constructivism) aspects and their relation with the human right to water and the international security organizations in Central Asia, i.e. the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO), Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) and various NATO-sponsored programs. Here, the author explores human security from the perspective of the Canadian School, which sees political decisions as being basic to the allocation of water resources, and considers water as a welfare resource. From a methodological perspective, analysis is based on constructivist school and Thierry Balzacq’s definition of securitization (2011). Accordingly, “securitization” is understood as a discursive strategic process built on a natural resource within the specific framework of international security organizations in Central Asia.
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Environmental security: the right of individuals and communities to preserve their lives and health in a safe and sustainable environment. Economic security: chances of access to employment and necessary resources for survival as well as decrease of needs and quality of life for the whole community. Society security: eradicate gender, age, ethnic group or social status discrimination within a community, this idea involving free access to knowledge and information networks and the possibility of association. Cultural security: a set of psychological orientations adapted to the people’s needs to preserve their ability to control uncertainty. Political security: the right to be represented, to be free, to participate, to dissent, all these rights combined with the possibility of celebrating elections reasonably and probably leading to real changes. This idea includes certain law and judicial guarantees, individual and collective, as access to justice and protection against abuse.
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World security conceived as “more than just surviving” means to create conditions in which the global “we” (and not only the dominant current one) can live a public and personal life with dignity, laughter, music and proper meals.
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Pérez Martín, M.Á. (2017). Introduction. In: Security and Human Right to Water in Central Asia. Security, Development and Human Rights in East Asia. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54005-8_1
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