Oscar A Gómez
Biographic Data
| ID | 139704 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Oscar A Gómez |
| GIVEN NAMES | Oscar A |
| FAMILY NAME | Gómez |
| SIGNATURE | GÓMEZ O A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9419-295X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Japan’s Diplomacy around Disasters: Only Swimming Against the Tide or Transforming It
There is a structural paradox at the intersection of disaster action and diplomacy. While the ideal situation would be to prevent or minimise the impact of disasters before they happen, the most valued diplomatic gains often come from responding to them. Japan’s diplomacy has reflected this paradox since the emergence of liberal international humanitarianism during the Cold War, which encouraged a focus on relief and boots on the ground while giv…
Dilemma? What graduation dilemma? Colombia and the future of development cooperation
Ethics for a breaking world: Capabilities, Intervention, Responsibility, Impartiality
Students’ perspectives of sustainable development goals in a Japanese higher education institute
Purpose As UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) are integrated across Asia-Pacific Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), the purpose of this descriptive and exploratory study is to investigate undergraduates’ own self-stated commitment to the SDGs and their perceived feasibility by the 2030 target. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methodology approach covered quantitative and qualitative approaches facilitated by purposive selection of an A…
Solidarity and Human Insecurity: Interpreting and Extending the HDRO’s 2022 Special Report on Human Security
The 2022 UNDP Special Report on human security marks an overdue return to this focus in Human Development Reports work. It adds solidarity to the established headline strategies for human security, namely protection and empowerment. While it does not theorise solidarity far, nor connect much to relevant literatures, nor explore implications in detail, it provides an opening of doors. We comment first on the Report’s general significance. It prese…
Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene
This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-green-brown planet, that is already breaching planetary boundaries and pushing us beyond the roughly 1.5°C tipping point. This threatens liveability and sustainability in many localities and regi…
Understanding humanitarian localization in Latin America—as local as possible: But how necessary
This paper questions the pertinence of the humanitarian aid localization agenda in Latin America, at least in the narrow sense embraced by the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. Localized support has been the standard practice in the region for decades, thanks to at least two correlated factors: the Monroe Doctrine limiting intervention to the USA and regional efforts to resist such intervention. Instead, humanitarian action in the region is an exam…
Japan and the international humanitarian system: In the periphery by design, principle or strategy
This article aims to explain why Japan has been at the periphery of the international humanitarian system, at least for the past two decades. Based on a review of the main features of the country's historical involvement in humanitarian crisis response, I suggest two main reasons: 1) the difficulty for Japan to adapt to the kind of institutions created after the end of the Cold War, mainly by Western actors, and 2) Japan's preference for an integ…
A multi-national validity analysis of the argumentativeness measure
Purpose The argumentativeness measure has been used in more than a 100 studies since 1982. The measure was developed and validated within a US university/college student sample. Despite its intended use, the measure is regularly used outside of the US and outside of the university/college setting without tests of validity. There is also intense debate as to the dimensionality of the measure, with one camp defending the bi-dimensionality of the me…
Japan and the international humanitarian system: In the periphery by design, principle or strategy
This article aims to explain why Japan has been at the periphery of the international humanitarian system, at least for the past two decades. Based on a review of the main features of the country’s historical involvement in humanitarian crisis response, I suggest two main reasons: 1) the difficulty for Japan to adapt to the kind of institutions created after the end of the Cold War, mainly by Western actors, and 2) Japan’s preference for an integ…
Localisation or deglobalisation? East Asia and the dismantling of liberal humanitarianism
Among the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit outcomes, localisation of humanitarian aid has received the greatest amount of attention. Localisation is described as giving more support to national first respondents, making humanitarian aid ‘as local as possible, as international as necessary’. Despite the good intentions, localisation presents a biased understanding of the local and its agency in transforming humanitarianism. Not only is localisation …
"Dossier "Humanitarismo en latinoamérica: Pasado y Presente
El humanitarismo se ha consolidado como un pilar de la gobernanza global. El apoyo a las víctimas de todo tipo de emergencias en cualquier parte del mundo es un suceso hoy por hoy común, casi cotidiano, símbolo de un compromiso compartido para con la humanidad sin importar fronteras. Desde sus orígenes en la abolición de la esclavitud y la creación de la Cruz Roja, el alcance del humanitarismo ha venido expandiéndose hasta ser acogido en el seno …
Human Security Norms in East Asia
Moving Development and Security Narratives a Step Further: Human Security in the Human Development Reports
During the last 20 years, the idea of human security has been spreading globally and locally, albeit unevenly. One factor in this growth has been the role of Human Development Reports as sources of alternative narratives to understand social problems and progress. This paper describes how National and Regional Human Development Reports have generated a rich and analytically fruitful set of approaches to examining and responding to contextual thre…
Alternative views of security in Latin America: Towards a global contribution to human security
This article analyzes the peripheral role of Latin America in global discussions about human security. The main hypothesis is that proposals for opening security theories and practices to a “human vision” failed to merge with the evolution of security concepts and institutions in the region over the last twenty years. Hence, there is no constructive communication interface between citizen and human security activities that inform security practic…
Human security thinking in practice: Personal Security’, ‘Citizen Security' and Comprehensive Mappings
This paper describes the introduction of an emphasis on ‘personal security’ in human security thinking and practice, as part of the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to compartmentalize the pursuit of security. It reviews the past 20 years of attention to ‘personal security’: both in compartments that consider organized physical violence or threats to personal safety and property (‘citizen security’), and as parts of more wide-ranging examination o…
What Can the Human Development Approach Tell Us about Crisis? An Exploration
Recognizing the influence crises have in shaping global governance nowadays, the present work explores the possible contribution of human development thinking countering the perverse effects of shock-driven responses to major emergencies. This is done by focusing on contributions by Sen, Dreze, Haq and Stewart related to famines, violent conflict and the idea of human security, analyzed using a selection of four criteria, namely, describing the p…
What is a human security project? The experience of the UN Trust Fund for Human Security
The idea of human security continues to gain global recognition, offering an alternative framework for the evolving challenges of the new century. While the human security literature has addressed the definition of the concept exhaustively, thorough analyses on efforts to operationalize it are scarce. The UN Trust Fund for Human Security is an appealing source of insights on the praxis of the idea because of the Fund's long-standing effort, which…
Human security thinking in practice: Personal Security’, ‘Citizen Security' and Comprehensive Mappings
This paper describes the introduction of an emphasis on ‘personal security’ in human security thinking and practice, as part of the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to compartmentalize the pursuit of security. It reviews the past 20 years of attention to ‘personal security’: both in compartments that consider organized physical violence or threats to personal safety and property (‘citizen security’), and as parts of more wide-ranging examination o…
Localisation or deglobalisation? East Asia and the dismantling of liberal humanitarianism
Among the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit outcomes, localisation of humanitarian aid has received the greatest amount of attention. Localisation is described as giving more support to national first respondents, making humanitarian aid ‘as local as possible, as international as necessary’. Despite the good intentions, localisation presents a biased understanding of the local and its agency in transforming humanitarianism. Not only is localisation …
What is a human security project? The experience of the UN Trust Fund for Human Security
The idea of human security continues to gain global recognition, offering an alternative framework for the evolving challenges of the new century. While the human security literature has addressed the definition of the concept exhaustively, thorough analyses on efforts to operationalize it are scarce. The UN Trust Fund for Human Security is an appealing source of insights on the praxis of the idea because of the Fund's long-standing effort, which…
Ethics for a breaking world: Capabilities, Intervention, Responsibility, Impartiality
Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene
This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-green-brown planet, that is already breaching planetary boundaries and pushing us beyond the roughly 1.5°C tipping point. This threatens liveability and sustainability in many localities and regi…
What Can the Human Development Approach Tell Us about Crisis? An Exploration
Recognizing the influence crises have in shaping global governance nowadays, the present work explores the possible contribution of human development thinking countering the perverse effects of shock-driven responses to major emergencies. This is done by focusing on contributions by Sen, Dreze, Haq and Stewart related to famines, violent conflict and the idea of human security, analyzed using a selection of four criteria, namely, describing the p…
What is a human security project? The experience of the UN Trust Fund for Human Security
The idea of human security continues to gain global recognition, offering an alternative framework for the evolving challenges of the new century. While the human security literature has addressed the definition of the concept exhaustively, thorough analyses on efforts to operationalize it are scarce. The UN Trust Fund for Human Security is an appealing source of insights on the praxis of the idea because of the Fund's long-standing effort, which…
What Can the Human Development Approach Tell Us about Crisis? An Exploration
Recognizing the influence crises have in shaping global governance nowadays, the present work explores the possible contribution of human development thinking countering the perverse effects of shock-driven responses to major emergencies. This is done by focusing on contributions by Sen, Dreze, Haq and Stewart related to famines, violent conflict and the idea of human security, analyzed using a selection of four criteria, namely, describing the p…
Alternative views of security in Latin America: Towards a global contribution to human security
This article analyzes the peripheral role of Latin America in global discussions about human security. The main hypothesis is that proposals for opening security theories and practices to a “human vision” failed to merge with the evolution of security concepts and institutions in the region over the last twenty years. Hence, there is no constructive communication interface between citizen and human security activities that inform security practic…
Human security thinking in practice: Personal Security’, ‘Citizen Security' and Comprehensive Mappings
This paper describes the introduction of an emphasis on ‘personal security’ in human security thinking and practice, as part of the ultimately unsuccessful attempt to compartmentalize the pursuit of security. It reviews the past 20 years of attention to ‘personal security’: both in compartments that consider organized physical violence or threats to personal safety and property (‘citizen security’), and as parts of more wide-ranging examination o…
Moving Development and Security Narratives a Step Further: Human Security in the Human Development Reports
During the last 20 years, the idea of human security has been spreading globally and locally, albeit unevenly. One factor in this growth has been the role of Human Development Reports as sources of alternative narratives to understand social problems and progress. This paper describes how National and Regional Human Development Reports have generated a rich and analytically fruitful set of approaches to examining and responding to contextual thre…
Human Security Norms in East Asia
"Dossier "Humanitarismo en latinoamérica: Pasado y Presente
El humanitarismo se ha consolidado como un pilar de la gobernanza global. El apoyo a las víctimas de todo tipo de emergencias en cualquier parte del mundo es un suceso hoy por hoy común, casi cotidiano, símbolo de un compromiso compartido para con la humanidad sin importar fronteras. Desde sus orígenes en la abolición de la esclavitud y la creación de la Cruz Roja, el alcance del humanitarismo ha venido expandiéndose hasta ser acogido en el seno …
Japan and the international humanitarian system: In the periphery by design, principle or strategy
This article aims to explain why Japan has been at the periphery of the international humanitarian system, at least for the past two decades. Based on a review of the main features of the country's historical involvement in humanitarian crisis response, I suggest two main reasons: 1) the difficulty for Japan to adapt to the kind of institutions created after the end of the Cold War, mainly by Western actors, and 2) Japan's preference for an integ…
A multi-national validity analysis of the argumentativeness measure
Purpose The argumentativeness measure has been used in more than a 100 studies since 1982. The measure was developed and validated within a US university/college student sample. Despite its intended use, the measure is regularly used outside of the US and outside of the university/college setting without tests of validity. There is also intense debate as to the dimensionality of the measure, with one camp defending the bi-dimensionality of the me…
Japan and the international humanitarian system: In the periphery by design, principle or strategy
This article aims to explain why Japan has been at the periphery of the international humanitarian system, at least for the past two decades. Based on a review of the main features of the country’s historical involvement in humanitarian crisis response, I suggest two main reasons: 1) the difficulty for Japan to adapt to the kind of institutions created after the end of the Cold War, mainly by Western actors, and 2) Japan’s preference for an integ…
Localisation or deglobalisation? East Asia and the dismantling of liberal humanitarianism
Among the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit outcomes, localisation of humanitarian aid has received the greatest amount of attention. Localisation is described as giving more support to national first respondents, making humanitarian aid ‘as local as possible, as international as necessary’. Despite the good intentions, localisation presents a biased understanding of the local and its agency in transforming humanitarianism. Not only is localisation …
Understanding humanitarian localization in Latin America—as local as possible: But how necessary
This paper questions the pertinence of the humanitarian aid localization agenda in Latin America, at least in the narrow sense embraced by the 2016 World Humanitarian Summit. Localized support has been the standard practice in the region for decades, thanks to at least two correlated factors: the Monroe Doctrine limiting intervention to the USA and regional efforts to resist such intervention. Instead, humanitarian action in the region is an exam…
Solidarity and Human Insecurity: Interpreting and Extending the HDRO’s 2022 Special Report on Human Security
The 2022 UNDP Special Report on human security marks an overdue return to this focus in Human Development Reports work. It adds solidarity to the established headline strategies for human security, namely protection and empowerment. While it does not theorise solidarity far, nor connect much to relevant literatures, nor explore implications in detail, it provides an opening of doors. We comment first on the Report’s general significance. It prese…
Global social challenges for development studies in the Crisis in the Anthropocene
This panel discussion session explores some of the central dimensions of the Crisis in the Anthropocene that constitute global social challenges in the context of development studies. The conference theme highlighted the profound human impact on our blue-green-brown planet, that is already breaching planetary boundaries and pushing us beyond the roughly 1.5°C tipping point. This threatens liveability and sustainability in many localities and regi…
Students’ perspectives of sustainable development goals in a Japanese higher education institute
Purpose As UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs) are integrated across Asia-Pacific Higher Education Institutes (HEIs), the purpose of this descriptive and exploratory study is to investigate undergraduates’ own self-stated commitment to the SDGs and their perceived feasibility by the 2030 target. Design/methodology/approach A mixed-methodology approach covered quantitative and qualitative approaches facilitated by purposive selection of an A…
Ethics for a breaking world: Capabilities, Intervention, Responsibility, Impartiality
Japan’s Diplomacy around Disasters: Only Swimming Against the Tide or Transforming It
There is a structural paradox at the intersection of disaster action and diplomacy. While the ideal situation would be to prevent or minimise the impact of disasters before they happen, the most valued diplomatic gains often come from responding to them. Japan’s diplomacy has reflected this paradox since the emergence of liberal international humanitarianism during the Cold War, which encouraged a focus on relief and boots on the ground while giv…
Dilemma? What graduation dilemma? Colombia and the future of development cooperation
Political science (15 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Human security (7 works) · International Development and Aid (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Economics (5 works) · Global Peace and Security Dynamics (5 works) · Global Security and Public Health (5 works) · Human Rights and Development (5 works)