Should human security displace development?
Over the last number of years our understanding of ‘security’ has been broadened and has begun to be reconceptualised. The question is whether this new understanding of security has become so all embracing that it can comfortably encompass what has traditionally been understood as ‘development’. If it does – or if it can – then there are major implications facing all of us. Defining the concept Certainly, within the academic community, there has been and continues to be a debate about what constitutes ‘security’. A substantial part of that debate asks ‘what is the referent object of security; is it the state (as has been the case traditionally) or is it the human person?’ Many scholars have concluded that our focus of study should be upon the security of the individual – establishing the concept of ‘human security’. Unfortunately, there is only a dim reflection of this debate within the public policy community – especially among traditional foreign policy and security actors in ministr
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