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The Human Security Agenda and Corporate Responsibility

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The Human Security Agenda and Corporate Responsibility at Coventry University

Language: English Studies in English
Subject area: security services
University website: www.coventry.ac.uk

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Human
Humans (taxonomically Homo sapiens) are the only extant members of the subtribe Hominina. The Hominina are sister of the Chimpanzees with which they form the Hominini belonging to the family of great apes. They are characterized by erect posture and bipedal locomotion; high manual dexterity and heavy tool use compared to other animals; open-ended and complex language use compared to other animal communications; and a general trend toward larger, more complex brains and societies.
Security
Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other unwanted coercive change) from external forces. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security may be persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems, and any other entity or phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change by its environment.
Responsibility
The Buck Stops Here
Harry S. Truman, motto on his White House desk. Alfred Steinberg, Harry S. Truman (1963), p. 185.
Responsibility
Freedom, however, is not the last word. Freedom is only part of the story and half of the truth. Freedom is but the negative aspect of the whole phenomenon whose positive aspect is responsibleness. In fact, freedom is in danger of degenerating into mere arbitrariness unless it is lived in terms of responsibleness.
Viktor Frankl, (1956) Man's Search for Meaning, p. 209-210.
Responsibility
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw, "Maxims for Revolutionists", Man and Superman (1903).
Researchers have used laboratory experiments to improve our understanding of how radioactive atoms move through clay, contributing to safer radioactive waste disposal.
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