Kirsty M Bisset recently graduated from the University of St Andrews with a masters in Peace and Conflict Studies. Her research interests include structural violence, gender issues, and social and economic justice, particularly in Haiti.
The human security discourse has been utilized by powerful states and institutions of global governance to legitimise the expansion of the liberal state-building consensus on the grounds of humanitarianism. The case of Haiti shows how interventions aiming to establish security in ‘weak’ or ‘failin