Human Security Intelligence: Towards a Comprehensive Understanding of Complex Emergencies

2014 ◽  
pp. 123-144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fred Bruls ◽  
A. Walter Dorn
Keyword(s):  
Human Security ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Complex Emergencies

scholarly journals COMPREHENSIVE AND HOLISTIC HUMAN SECURITY FOR A POSTCOLONIAL SOUTHERN AFRICA: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK

2021 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siphamandla Zondi
Keyword(s):  
Southern Africa ◽  
Regional Integration ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Good Life ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Conceptual Basis ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Conceptual Confusion

At the heart of the conundrum of regional integration in Africa is the very conceptual basis of the idea and its agendas. In southern Africa, the agenda has for decades been about fighting poverty and enabling a good life for the citizens of the region, but the so-called developmental regional integration agenda is undermined by the lack of coherence and synergy between the security and development arms of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). The former has the Strategic Indicative Plan of the Organ of Security Cooperation and Defence (SIPO) and the development efforts are guided by the Regional Indicative Strategic Development Plan (RISDP). Both claim to pursue human security by placing the plight of ordinary citizens at the centre of all efforts, yet in reality this shared aspiration has not provided a basis conceptually speaking, nor practically, for a deep cohesion in the manner in which SADC pursues its overriding goals. This article provides a critical analysis of the evolution of the concept and it also anticipates how it will evolve into a holistic idea in southern Africa. It identifies major obstacles to the achievement of the goal and offers possible solutions to the conceptual confusion that confounds the idea of human security by suggesting a comprehensive understanding of the concept and how it might apply in southern Africa.

Digitalisation and human security dimensions in cybersecurity: an appraisal for the European High North

Polar Record ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 54 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirva Salminen ◽  
Kamrul Hossain
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Human Security ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Comprehensive Understanding ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Digital Development ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Societal Changes

ABSTRACTOverarching digitalisation is producing significant socio-cultural, economic and policy changes in the European High North. These changes create new opportunities, but also challenges and concerns for people and communities living in the region. Digital development is guided by supranational, national and regional digital policies and is secured through national cybersecurity agendas. These frameworks concentrate on advancing overall economic growth and safeguarding critical information infrastructure and information security, but pay inadequate attention to the interests, needs and fears of people and communities experiencing digitalisation in everyday life. In order to generate a more comprehensive cybersecurity agenda, which focuses on human security and empowering people to influence the digital development, a research framework highlighting the actual ways people use, wish to use, or are unable to use information and communication technologies is needed. The focus of this article is therefore on regionally contextualised digital opportunities and threats as they may be experienced by local people and communities. It utilises insights of securitisation theory to grant people a say in the direction of digital development in their region. The aim is to introduce issues of human security to cybersecurity agendas, for a more comprehensive understanding of the societal changes that digitalisation generates.

The human security approach to direct and structural violence

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Albrecht Schnabel
Keyword(s):  
Structural Violence ◽  
Human Security

Conflict and Human Security in Africa

2011 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Security
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