Human Security Discourse and Security Concerns of Women in North East India

Abstract

In the contemporary security discourse there has been a growing tendency to dismiss traditional security discourse as insensitive towards the security concern of women and instead the concept of ‘human security' is increasingly being looked at as more effective means to address the security concerns of women. The present paper, however, argues that the concept of human security like it's the traditional formulation treats the problem of security as gender neutral issue and as a result fails to take into account the specific challenges and needs to address women security concerns particularly in the context of societies like North East India and therefore suggest that there is need for developing a more gender friendly security discourse to meet the security concerns of women.