A REVIEW OF THE INTERCONNECTEDNESS AND INDIVISIBILITY OF THE HUMAN RIGHTS, HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN SECURITY AGENDAS: THE CASE OF THE COLOMBIAN INTERNALLY DISPLACED POPULATION

In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the interdependence
and indivisibility of the human rights, human development and human
security agendas. The United Nations, particularly the Secretary General
and the United Nations Development Programme, have embraced this
approach because of its potential to address structural problems, to secure
coherence in all of the activities of the organization and fulfil the principles
of the Charter. This library based paper reviews the application of this
‘approach to human well-being’ to the IDPs in Colombia, and will contend
that, although this all encompassing approach to human protection has an
impact on the possibility of enhancing the capacity of these discourses of
addressing human well-being, there are risks which need to be highlighted
in order to guarantee that the emancipatory character of human rights
will not be co-opted or instrumentalized.