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Human Security and Its Changing Meaning (İnsani Güvenlik ve Değişen Anlamı)
The purpose of this article is to examine the concept of human security and its changing meaning in the post coronavirus period. As known, the new generation coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, which appeared in Wuhan, China in late 2019 and captured the world in a short time, has become one of the most important agenda of humanity nowadays. It is a matter of curiosity how this epidemic will affects human security at the future. Is the coronavirus predicting a new world order? What opportunities or risks does the Covid-19 outbreak globally include? How can we achieve both preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and viruses to control danger and save human life? In this study, the effects of epidemic on economy, technology, education and human behavior in the post-coronavirus period are investigated in the light of the concept of human security. This article can be read as a contribution attempt to establish a safer future for man by reinterpreting the concept of human security.
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.
Human Security Concept: A New Paradigm in Human Development
Sains Humanika, 2016
United Nations (UN) in 1994 under the Human Development Report has chosen a term that can lead to human security, which refers to an integration in human development and is associated with human life good. Generally human security is defined as freedom from fear, and freedom from want. Under this human security is divided into seven categories of safety, economy, food, health, environmental, personal, community and political. These reports are available through the importance of food security as it is placed under the UN human security. Break the traditional concept of human security in which it does not see the country in terms of security simply preferred the military aspect but it is more focused on the aspects of human security itself. This aspect of human security if not given serious concentration it could threaten national security and thus the stability of the region and globally. Thus, the concept of human security and well-being of human happiness is to be the main topic in the discussion of which in the end he is not talking about the country as a whole individual. Furthermore this human security concept will be a new paradigm in human development.
International journal of applied research, 2022
Traditionally the idea of "security" has been framed in neo-pragmatist terms, connecting with ensuring the regional trustworthiness and political power of countries. The 1994 report given by the UNDP moved the focal point of the worldwide talk on security. The productive conversation of normative and experimental issues connected with the new security idea made it soon a focal thought on the worldwide security plan. During the last decades the rise of a wide scope of new security threats at the nearby, local, national, and worldwide level, including risks connected with an ethnic violation and common conflicts, fierce radicalism, environmental change, illegal exchange. Human security indicates a multi-faceted and all-encompassing way to deal with security that depends on the conviction that issues like human rights, advancement of the individuals, and instability in struggle zones are firmly interrelated. This normative work analyzes the concept of human security and its implication in worldwide. This paper also discusses the different approaches to human security.
The Insecurity of Human Security
32(1) WISCONSIN INTERNATIONAL LAW JOURNAL 95-141 (2014)
Since the mid-1990s, a new concept has entered into international discourse: human security. The concept Human security seeks to create a paradigm shift in conceptions of security. It aims to relocate the focus of protection from the state to individuals and to expand the scope of the conception of security from military security into broader areas, such as protection from hunger, natural disaster, poverty, and other threats not traditionally conceptualized in terms of security. Human security reflects the need for conceptual innovation in political, legal, national, and international discourse. This article presents a conceptual analysis of human security. It clarifies the distinctions between national security and human security, and demonstrates how this term cuts across the familiar dichotomy between human rights and security by approaching subjects that were typically the concern of human rights discourse through a security prism. Human security thus requires revised thinking in both international and domestic law about, inter alia, the identification of threats to the security of the individual and the relationship between a government and its citizens. The article offers a critical study of the human security concept. The author argues that although human security is normatively appealing, it suffers from numerous analytical shortcomings. Therefore, instead of promoting new concepts, the author argues that it is more useful to concentrate on the familiar concept of rights. If the aspiration is to protect human security in the broad sense, the international community should focus its efforts on the protection, promotion and realization of civil and political rights, together with social, economic, and cultural rights, instead of the promotion of new concepts. Genuine protection of human dignity, life, health, standard of living and a suitable environment, etc., will provide humanity’s true security.
HUMAN SECURITY IN A GLOBAL AGE
Human Security has been part of academic and policy discourses since it was first promoted by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in its 1994 Human Development Report. It means protecting fundamental freedoms. It means protecting people from critical (severe) and pervasive (widespread) threats and situations. It means using processes that build on people's strengths and aspirations. It means creating political, social, environmental, economic, military, and cultural systems that together give people the building blocks of survival. This paper examines the origins of the concept of human security, debates surrounding its definition and scope, some of the threats to human security in the world today, and international efforts to promote human security. It proceeds in five parts. The section, 'What is human security?', traces the origin and evolution of the concept, examines competing definitions offered by scholars and policy-makers, draws attention to the three distinct conceptions of human security that shape current debates, and takes a look at the usefulness of the concept of human security. The section that follows offers a brief overview of some contributions to the human security literature. The next section reviews debates and controversies about human security, especially over the analytic and policy relevance of the notion, and the broad and narrow meaning of the concept ('freedom from fear' versus 'freedom from want'). The fourth section examines some of the threats to human security today. While the concept of human security encompasses a wide range of threats, due to lack of space, this section will focus on the trends in armed conflicts as well as the interrelationship between conflict and other violence threats to human security, such as poverty, disease, and environmental degradation. The final section analyzes the international community's efforts to promote human security and concludes by identifying the major challenges to promoting the notion of human security today.
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Over the past decade, the concept of human security has influenced and challenged global politics, institutions and governance. As we look into the contemporary structures of many existing security agendas within policy making circles, there is a general consensus that reformation is needed, in many ways. Since many changes or influxes within the security environment may shift instantly with the rise of evolving security threats, including those which have a transnational character, are prone to exist in a modernizing global world. Central to this approach is the perception of security as priorities most often vary from one state, or party to another. The holistic vision of protecting the security of populations lends itself to a variety of interpretations shaped by the relative understandings of what constitutes a threat to the security of an individual, per say. This leads us to question how the intensity and repercussions of any given threat may be measured, and by which means we may eliminate or prevent it. Understanding and effectively analyzing current security trends in relation to human security and human welfare are key issues for upcoming security threats in the future, as must be the main consideration when looking at policy making mechanisms. Often such threats have historically proven to have a tendency to affect people regardless of the region, or context reminding us that each and every individual, is to some extent at least, vulnerable to a single form of insecurity. The extent to which they are affected or the probability which they may be, in respect to insecurity is a whole study by itself.
Chapter 2. Establishing Feeling of Security for the People Who Suffer from Conflict
The Migration Conference 2017 Proceedings, 2017
Life is an illusion that shaped by our perception. This perception can be influenced by different factors and influence our behavior a human being. For example, social media can be used to create the illusion of fear or security in our modern world. Media could lead social developments and also clash similarly as we have seen in the Arap spring. Is security significant for human beings? According to Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs theory, security lies at the very basic level. Security is essential for human development. In this article, I will discuss the parameters of risk for security and human perception of security. As a conclusion, many people still suffer and can not fulfill their basic needs in regions of the world. We would constantly on associated with one another and answerable for one another. We need to be concerned and take an action to ensure the security of our world for the dignity of human being. Earth is like a human body. The conflict area is something like a cancerous region of the human body. As cancer spreads to the whole body, conflicts do too. The thing that unites us ought further to bolster a chance to be more excellent over what isolates us.
Modern human security threats in the global dimension
ANUAL INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND MANAGEMENT 2022 April 21-22, 2022, ISMA University, Riga, Latvia, 2022
The author examines the global challenges and threats to human security that exist in the modern world and have a negative effect on human development. The main sources of threats to human security are investigated. It is determined that the basis of their occurrence is the factor of interaction of the physical system with the living and social ones, as well as the man with the biological sphere. The author describes such types of threats to human security as the COVID-19 pandemic, famine, poverty, climate change, digital technology risks, violent conflicts, confrontations, wars. It is pointed out that every sovereign country, regional and international alliances need to strengthen the security component of human protection in terms of its protection based on progressive partnership and security dialogues between all stakeholders: states, international organizations, business sector, civil society organizations, academics globally. Because of Russia’s unjustified aggressive war against Ukraine, there is a need to form a new world security system to ensure peace and protect people in the future.