Åtgärder på vems bekostnad? - En studie kring att förstå kriget mot droger i Filippinerna utifrån ett mänskligt säkerhetsperspektiv

Sammanfattning: This study aims to understand president Duterte’s ’war on drugs’ through human security theory. In order to achieve an analytical framework for human security, two of its subcategories have been used as a theoretical entrance: personal and political security. The study consists of a single case study with an understanding approach to the phenomenon of the Philippine drug war through human security, based on secondary material. The methodology has been based on the principles of process tracing, except for the explaining aspiration of causality. In order to analyze the Philippine drug war, the study have looked upon extrajudicial killings, impunity and law enforcement, and thereafter used the collected information to understand the drug war’s significance in terms of human security. The study concludes that although there are some factors of the drug war that could be interpreted as positive in the remark of personal and political security, the overall results imply that the drug war can and should be understood as threatening the security of the referent object within human security – the people.