PO SC 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Human Security, Environmental Security, Physical Security

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The condition of being protected from or not exposed to danger; safety, freedom from anxiety or apprehension, a feeling of safety or freedom from or absence of danger. Risks of falling below some critical threshold of deprivation. The protection of the state from external threats. The use of the military to ensure the territorial integrity of a sovereign state. Avoid, prevent, and win an interstate military dispute. Human security: the safety of the human being from all threats to human life and dignity. Food security: constant physical and economic access to basic food (production v. distribution) Health security: minimum guarantee of protection from diseases and unhealthy lifestyles (e. g. malnutrition) Environmental security: natural and man-caused deterioration of the natural environment (e. g. clean water) Personal security: physical violence, political and criminal. Community security: the loss of traditional relations and values due to sectarian or ethnic violence. Political security: harm to human rights due to political unrest (repression or conflict)

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