Global Contemporary Issues: Amitav Acharya’s Paper on Human Security

Alexis J. Cabauatan
Das Scriber Interdisciplinary Research and Development
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Introduction
The human security has yet to grab the attention of experts. In the educational setting,
numerous key figures remain sceptical on the progress made by the principle. Further than talking
points of freedom from fear and freedom from want inspired by the UNDP, there seems to be little
consensus on it's core components.
Freedom from fear has urged heavy, though still questionable, global acceptance of a
responsibility to protect the agenda. Freedom from want has not yet initiated a complex
international obligation to a commitment that provide policy.

Discussion
The concept of human security has been embedded into their foreign policy objectives by
many States. In particular, Japan, Canada and Norway are influenced. The latter started the
"Human Security Network" a group of countries of the same view. The G8 Forum, according to
OECD and world Bank, is also filtering the Human safety agenda.
The lack of clarity and limited usefulness of human safety in political analysis have been
questioned. Human security is said as governance relations that highlights the protection of the
people. It was rebuked as its focus on rights of women, in particular, was too little.
The framework of human security is still discussed in limited and widespread terms. Among his
proponents there is prevailing opinion that it means a refocusing from an area of government
towards a security approach centered on people. The Security Discussion topic of Security
Dialogue in September 2004 calls for a rethinking of state sovereignty. All advocates of human
security believe that the security of individual citizens is its prime purpose. A clear opinion
disintegrates over the risks that people have to face by protecting themselves from. The concept of
the definition is narrow or wide, depending on what you consider to be “people's rights and
security”.
The interpretation of CHS has been the most commonly often used in human security
literature and debates. The interpretation of the Commission is sufficiently broad to address the

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information and clarification of various countries. It also acknowledges that much of the energy
necessary to correct human security concerns is dictated both politically and objectively. The
interpretation is narrow and to provide a conceptual approach with conceptual legitimacy.
Both UN member countries adopted the double priorities of human security, due to
significant disparities in interests and viewpoints. As an integral factor of foreign affairs,
the millennium resolution acknowledged the freedom from distress and desire. The principle of
human security correlates with sustainability, peace and security and human rights and is mutually
reinforced. The word "human security" means the freedom to live free, and from poverty and
suffering in freedom and dignity" (United Nations, 2009)
In the most serious instances of human rights abuses, non-intervention is unsustainable.
Only a few outright authoritarians can argue that there can be no justification for war: no general
regulatory or legal mechanisms can be created for compassionate intervention and circumstance
calls for discussion of the moral character of either side.
At a time when such a judgment has to be taken, the national and foreign policymakers
have struggled in all their everyday attempts to properly take humanitarian issues into account.
The international community appeals to the circumstances where less cases of accountability for
action have addressed by firmly sticking to its duty to defend and drawing closer attention to its
responsibilities.
The UN is the safest and only way to maintain world security and prosperity. The dilemma
is to build the United Nation. Fully successful in stopping, tracking and securing citizens and other
international security organizations. Different organisztions and actors made initial efforts to stress
certain dimensions of human security. Typically, the work of human protection has broken and its
priorities have spread. Adaptation of a human security system means efforts to solve the challenge
of violent conflicts and economic and political disparities from an integrated perspective.

Conclusion
Human protection is defined by the emphasis on people as a safety guide. To live in a state
free from terror, members must be shielded from violence and coercion, but fundamental human
rights must be met so that a life free of need or else properly protected. If the aim of the approach
is really to limit human suffering by enhancing the number of future years spent outside a
widespread poverty situation, the responsibility for protecting and providing for individual people

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under our humanness, regardless of arbitrary socially constructed bounds, is obviously a matter
for the States and international actors.
The democracy of the mainstream press has made it difficult for governments to disguise
unjust practices or struggles. It is "inexcusable" in the modern international security setting.
Fortunately, the need to set a relatively high threshold for all forms of transboundary activity, often
includes national sovereignty and international security issues. In order to cause responsibility for
defending or obligation for interfering, fear or desire must achieve a degree of turmoil in the
specific community. Human security initiatives are justified by a global obligation to defend and
provide as this happens.

Reference:
Acharya, A. (2001). Human Security. International Journal, 56(3), 442-460. doi:10.2307/40203577
United Nations General Assembly. (2009). UN Expert Tells Third Committee No State Free from
Human Rights Violations, Accountability System Must Be Effective in as Many States as Possible
27 October 2009. Department of Public Information • News and Media Division • New York

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Alexis J. Cabauatan
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Author bio
Alexis Jose Cabauatan was a Filipino political scientist who founded the Das Scriber
Interdisciplinary Research and Development, and was involved as consultant to different
Academic Researches here and abroad. Earned his Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science and a
Master of Political Science and International Relations in Victoria University of Wellington.

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