Personal Security – An Individual Responsibility (original) (raw)

Human Security: a Need and a Challenge

Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences, 2014

The purpose of this paper is to emphasize the fact that everyone should contribute to the security aspects, that includes individuals, the society and the state. Each one of us want to live without fear from everyday risks and threats which happen in our surrounding. Nevertheless, each one of us should give our contribution to make this happen, with the purpose of protecting our lives in the same scale as we expect from the society and the state to provide that security. The purpose of this link or relationship of interest between the individual and the society is to reciprocally increase the societal and individual security. Thus, people should protect their lives as strongly as they expect from the society/state to do so. From the context of security provided by the society/state, we want to emphasize that the protection of our community from crime is one of the protection functions of the criminal law, while on the other hand the legal security is an element of rule of law. Criminal law is tasked with safeguarding citizens, by protecting human life, bodily integrity, rights and freedoms, honor, authority, equality and safety and security of the citizens. Security at its broader political and legal meaning includes defence measures and activities for protecting from the endangering of the independence and integrity of the country (nation) and the internal constitutional and legal order. Security as a constitutional value and need should defend the public order, the state and its citizens as well as enable unimpeded functioning of the institutions in all of its segments. On the contrary, the lack of trust of citizens in the judiciary impacts every individual member of the society in the form of legal insecurity which leads to self-judgment with all its destructive elements of this phenomenon. The modern concepts of security everyday and more are based on the obligation of states but also of its citizens, to establish the feeling of collective security based on the principle that "whoever lives and acts in a respective country has the right to feel free." Democratic countries while preparing their policies in the security field, as a very essential and sensitive issue in all aspects of life and of special importance worldwide, try to increase the feeling of social, economical and political security of the nation and its institution towards threats and risks, and they do so by among others by preparing documents, strategies and other above mentioned policies.

Security and Everyday Life

A Book Review: Security and Everyday Life* Safety and security issues have been repeatedly identified as two of the most important components of the hospitality and tourism industry. Risk management, liability, and business cases for implementing best practices are widely known and cited. For example, most hospitality and tourism academics researching issues of security are aware of the hotel fires at the MGM Grand in 1980 that took 85 lives and the 1986 Dupont Plaza Hotel fire where 97 lives were lost. We are also aware of recent terrorist attacks such as 2008's Taj Hotel bombing in Mumbai, India and Bali's 2002 attack where more than 200 lives were lost. These are not the only cases of safety and security; these are a few of the most well-known cases in the hospitality and tourism industry. This book provides no less than ten other case studies and examples from varying perceptions and experiences, in turn providing a wellrounded understanding of current issues.

Personal Security within the Human Security Paradigm

Security Dimensions International & National Studies

This paper attempts to answer the question of for whom is security relevant, and whether security is a category which constitutes the point of reference to the idea of personal security. until very recently, security was associated with threats originating from the political and military situation of the state, not individuals. the traditional system was based on the state-centric approach to security. the idea of human security, on the other hand, in contrast to the traditional system, expands the definition of security threats. Human security combines the security of individuals with that of the state. the article focuses on examining the relations between the security of the state the idea of human security. analysing those relations allowed for the development of the term: personal security.

Human Security and its Challenges

National Conference on International Peace and Security, 2016

Human Security is the most desirable and necessary element of any society. Human insecurity poses a threat to the survival and growth of both individual and society. Several studies and researches have been concentrating on terrorism, plagues, scarcity, climate change and ill-political conditions as challenges for human security, but this paper with unique understanding highlights the Psychological effects as a main approach towards human security. Cultural and Social elements are also discussed in the paper as the immediate and most challenging issues of human security. Although there are various organizations like the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Interpol, Red Cross and other NGOs working on the lines of human security, there is a lot more to do as an individual in the society to avert the human insecurities in the present globalized world. The social awakening and responsibility should be invoked in every individual person to create a world class security atmosphere. Not only the war between the borders of the various sovereign territories but also the inner psychological war between the mind and soul of an individual has to be settled in order to achieve the sustainable and millennium development goals in the world we live. Therefore, psychology of an individual plays a key role in shaping the society and therefore the human security which is described in this paper.

Evolution of thinking and research on human security and personal security 1994-2013.

In: Safeguarding Human Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities, Building Resilience, ed. K. Malik, New York: UNDP, pp. 365-401. Also as: Occasional Paper, UNDP Human Development Report Office, New York.Also as: Occasional Paper series, Human Development Report Office, UNDP, New York, 2014

Human security analysis considers the intersection of deprivation and vulnerability, and is an essential part, or partner, of human development thinking, giving special attention to risks and forces of disruption and destruction. This paper highlights six strands or styles in such work since 1994: violent conflict, and its prevention and resolution; crime and ‘citizen security’; psychological insecurity; environmental change; comprehensive identification and comparison of all major threats; and study of selected priority threats in a particular time and place. The main attention in the paper goes to the first, second and fifth of these topics. The 1994 Human Development Report’s list of seven categories of frequently threatened values was not intended to promote consideration of each in isolation, for threats interconnect, their relative importance changes, and comparisons are required. The flexibility required runs counter to vested interests and established patterns of inclusion/exclusion; security is too often equated to familiar means instead of related to the changing agenda of threats. In each context, the paper advises regular alternation of broad-horizon studies to identify priority areas and their linkages, with narrower horizon studies that explore in depth the threats and alternatives within pre-selected priority fields.

Human Security Thinking in Practice - ’Personal Security’, ‘Citizen Security’, Comprehensive Mappings

The 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 twenty 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 of threats to fulfilment of basic needs and rights, for example in comprehensive mapping exercises undertaken in various UNDP Regional and National Human Development Reports or in studies of women's security. The paper reflects on the complex process of opening-up conventional security thinking and practice, seeking value-added and depth without shrinking into preconceived compartments.

Human Safety “In The Pocket” of National Safety

Academic Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2015

In everyday life, in real life, tangible public when looking at human security threats to the public look really "human security" at the national level. Often there is no need to make major survey on human security, because in many urban centres and not only the index of human security perspective can become a point of reference for policy as well as all of the security researchers. The new National Safety adopted in June 2014 and the standards embody the principles of the North Atlantic Alliance, where national security is the foundation for a democratic development and significant economic growth of the country. In academic format, national security is the whole of the efforts undertaken by the state to ensure its survival, through measures of an economic, military, political, intelligence, diplomatic and organizational. The concept of "security" for a long time been interpreted, narrowly: as security of territory from external aggression, such as protection of national interests in foreign policy, etc. Safety has been associated more with countries rather than people, more than the state security and human security. "Traditional security" has been at the centre of the state, and "human security" individual, the people, the community. While the term "security" is any risk of being out of the unexpected for life, being independent in a certain area, where the constitutional guarantee of public order, public and private property, dignity and national values. So the term "security" in the first predetermines human security, community security state. It is for this reason that human safety takes the value of multilateral special analysis and study. Safety is a guarantee for national integrity, the existence of the nation state, which is accomplished through the use of elements of national power: politics, diplomacy, information, economy and military power. Safety is a guarantee in a democratic system "social peace" to society.

Emphasizing prevention in citizen security

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