Original title: Americká rasová realita: syntéza kritické teorie rasy a mezinárodních bezpečnostních studíí
Translated title: The American Racial Reality: The Nexus between Critical Race Theory and International Security
Authors: Kuttu, Leah Gideon ; Vostal, Filip (advisor) ; Střítecký, Vít (referee)
Document type: Master’s theses
Year: 2021
Language: eng
Abstract: Human Security and Police Brutality via the Lens of Critical Race Theory Leah Gideon Kuttu 47472109 'Equality' and 'dignity of persons' are common language in the legal lingo on rights and freedoms of all men. However there seems to exist, a large magnitude in discrepancy with the actuality of these ideals in the way that all people are treated, particularly in this work, in the American society. The death of George Floyd was momentous in refocusing light on the issue of police brutality and seemingly, institutionalized racism in America. That one post showing how Floyd was killed by Police, showed just how much Black America was treated in contrast to the stipulated rights for all persons noted in America's legal apparatus. There began for international security a marked turning point in the pivot with the human being- as opposed to the state- becoming the core object for security and protection. This new turn is pointed to the 1990s in the aftermath of the Cold war. Human-centric occupations in security connote that threats to international security begin with the individual and so the individual must first be prioritized when assessing threats to security in the state and the international system. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDHR, 1948) is the foremost pillar on which human security is...
Keywords: black people; critical race theory; human rights and dignity; human security; police brutality; Race; racial profiling; securitization

Institution: Charles University Faculties (theses) (web)
Document availability information: Available in the Charles University Digital Repository.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/152267

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