Human security

Due to the unresolved conflicts this security entails, threats become more complex as human security studies actors and societies alone. Sabina Alkire focuses on the critical and pervasive threats surrounding human security. First, threats are critical when “they threaten to cut into the core activities and functions of human lives.” These threats may be unexpected, such as an economic breakdown, but it has to meet its criteria for it to be critical when it comes to its “tragic depth rather than its suddenness.” Second, threats are pervasive when the threat itself is large scale, or the threat repeats itself over time. Alkire describe pervasive threat that does not occur “en mass”- she notes that a man may be disabled at work by accident or by a dangerous animal; therefore, making is family live in poverty. This scenario may be “isolated rather than pervasive,” but she notes that if it is multiplied over time, the health insecurity qualifies as a pervasive threat.

For the realists, threats come from the violence from other states. For human security, threats may come from direct or indirect. Alkire proceeds to discuss the direct and indirect threats that threaten human’s lives daily. She describes these threats that are “deliberately orchestrated, and those that arise inadvertently or structurally.” Such threats may be through genocide or soil depletion, or a collapse in health care or education.

There are also threats that validate as a new enemy: natural disasters. Natural disasters act as a formidable enemy to both the state and human security. . It leads to destructions of home and causing deaths among people, which then instills fear to every persons and increase insecurities drastically. There is also the problem of pov...

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...into poverty as moved out, with less money to spend on food.” With a low economic growth rate within the state, malnutrition is evident to the citizens due to the economic disparity within the country.

The lack of human security is evident with the diminishing revenue and tourism in the country, increase rates of poverty and lower economic growth, political uncertainty, rising inflation, and gender disparities. The country is in a vulnerable position as it was three years ago. Community and personal security should be enforced immediately to alleviate all disparities and insecurities within the region.

Conclusion

Besides all the discrepancy within its study, human security studies’ importance continues to flourish. Many scholars continue to define the meaning of human security and how it relates to state security while others explore its design and policies.