History

Security and Human Rights is a legacy of the Helsinki process that was designed during the Cold War, to bridge Eastern and Western Europe on the basis of common principles and co-operative security.

Originally titled Helsinki Monitor, it was established in 1990 under the auspices of the Netherlands Helsinki Committee to report on developments in and related to the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). In 2008, the Helsinki Monitor became Security and Human Rights, broadening its scope to include the intersection between human rights and security in general, whilst maintaining a focus on the OSCE region.

After a long and fruitful partnership with Brill Academic Publishers, which ended in 2022, the Journal is now entirely self-published and all of its publications are made available in full open access on this website.

Scope

Security and Human Rights looks at the challenge of building security through cooperation across the northern hemisphere, from Vancouver to Vladivostok, as well as how this experience can be applied to other parts of the world. It aims to stimulate thinking on the question of protecting and promoting human rights in a world faced with serious threats to security. Themes that are regularly addressed by Security and Human Rights include:

• Cooperative security
• East-West relations
• European and Euro-Atlantic security
• Conventional arms control
• Conflict prevention
• Mediation and conflict resolution
• Protracted conflicts in the OSCE region
• Cyber security
• Confidence-building measures
• Migration
• Anti-radicalization
• Counter-terrorism
• Activities of OSCE Field Operations
• Economic and environmental aspects of security
• Minority issues
• Democracy-building
• Elections in the OSCE region
• Human rights issues

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