Question

what do you understand by the term human security?Discuss in 500 words

Answer 1

• Answer:Human security holds that a people-centered view of security is necessary for national, regional & global stability. At a minimum human security means freedom from violence & from the fear of violence. ... It saw security as an “integrative” rather than “defensive concept”
• 'Human security' means freedom from pervasive threats to people's rights, their safety or even their lives. 'Freedom from fear' & 'freedom from want' have become the phrases in vogue under the human security approach.

• Human security has been defined as „freedom from fear and freedom from want”. It is a prerequisite for human development, which is the goal of development cooperation.

• Human security is concerned with safeguarding and expanding people's vital freedoms. It requires both protecting people from critical and pervasive threats and empowering people to take charge of their own lives.

• Major global threats to human security include war, mass atrocities, environmental degradation, and public health crises. Some human security issues are well known, like torture and genocide, and others are hidden, like the millions of missing women in the world.
• In conclusion it should be stated that human security is an important and useful concept that suffers because of its broad sweep and definitional elasticity. Actors who aim to employ human security need to decide what they feel constitutes a security threat to the individual and act upon it.
• The term “Renaissance” means rebirth, in a narrow sense it is used to describe the revival of interest in the classical civilizations of Greece & Rome. Renaissance was marked by a series of new developments in the field of art, literature, religion, philosophy, science & politics.
• Human development is defined as the process of enlarging people's freedoms and opportunities and improving their well-being. Human development is about the real freedom ordinary people have to decide who to be, what to do, and how to live. The human development concept was developed by economist Mahbub ul Haq.
• There are essentially seven issues associated human security. These are economic security, food security, health security environmental security, personal security, community security, and political security.
• This definition is again refined in The State of Food Insecurity 2001: “Food security [is] a situation that exists when all people, at all times, have physical, social and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs andfood preferences for an active and healthy life”