Technical Journal, Vol. 8 No. 3, 2014.
Professional paper
Human Security Concept in Political and Academic Circles
Ana Devon
Abstract
Human security is a concept that evolved from the shift that occurred in the political and security reality in the post-Cold War world. The new forms of conflicts emerged and changed the concept of security as well as the conventional notions of war. Human security is a very comprehensive concept consisting of two categories- ‘freedom from want’ and ‘freedom from fear’. The first one represents the broader definition and includes threats such as hunger, disease, repression, and protection from sudden disasters. It was upheld by the 1944 UNDP Human Development Report and has since been also supported by the Japanese government and Human Security Commission. The latter one emphasizes violent threats against an individual (such as drug trade, land mines, ethnic discord, state failure, small-arms trafficking). The ‘freedom from fear’ approach focuses on immediate necessity and is for those reasons supported by the Canadian government and the EU.
Keywords
“freedom from fear”; “freedom from want”; human development; human security; security
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Publication date:
15.9.2014.
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