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Human society needs security for their livelihood. If there is no human security there cannot be a developed society. At the time of cold war ended, the world has seen rapid globalization of human and economic activities, along with the liberalization and the trade and investment and the marked progress of information-technology. Also at the time of globalization has provided substantial benefits including the growth of the world economy and improvements in the standard of leaving, these benefits have not necessarily gone equally to all the countries and people in the world, many problems like smuggling of arms, spread of infectious diseases, global warming, etc., have become trans-national because of globalization. After the end of cold war, we have witnessed at several places a changing in the nature of conflict with ethnic and religious conflicts increasing, with some instances of civil war. Because these changes, it is becoming necessary to come up with a new concept of security that addresses people’s vulnerability to these types of conflict, which treated their lives and livelihood, a concept that goes beyond national security are characterized as being both the cause and the result of processes of disintegration of society and the state institutions. The universal declaration of human right adopted by the UN in 1948 state that everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person. However, the concept of human security now encompasses economics, heath, and environmental concerns as well. The specific phrase human security was first put forward by the 1994 united National Development Programme, Annual Human Development Report. While the term human security is of recent origin, the ideas that underline the concept are now new. These ideas have been around ever since the international Red Cross was founded in the 1860s, it was there in the U N Charter and it was echoed in the universal Declaration of Human Rights.
According to the article 3 of the universal declaration of human rights, the right to security of persons is a fundamental human right, together with a right to life and liberty. Human security emphasizes the need to strengthen empowerment of the citizenships. Achievement of human security requires a global political culture that is founded on shared values of human dignity and human rights. Hence important issues in human security like children in war, landmine, and ethnic conflicts should be discussed from broad human rights prospective. In essence, human security means freedom from pervasive threats to people’s rights, their safety or even their lives. A human security perspective asserts that the security of the state is not an end in itself. Rather, it is a means of ensuring security for its people. In this context, state security and human security are mutually supportive. Building an effective, democratic state that values its own people and protects minorities is a central strategy for promoting human security. The term human security recognizes the linkages between environment and society. It also recognizes two other features of the link between environment and security, first, that feedback exists between environment and security, for example, environmental degradation may result in population movement, which in turn, poses a threat to the environment. The human development approach and the development of the human development index was a major step forward in reorienting development for improvements in the lives of people and not merely economic growth. Human development is expansionist in nature and deals with increasing social services along with economic development to increase opportunities. However, this concept does not offer solution to deal with the downside. It does not effective dealt with measurement and analyze of situations where freedom are curtailed and there is deterioration in the quality of lives of people. Human security provided an enabling environment for human development. Where violence or threat of violence makes meaningful progress on the development agenda impossible, enhancing safety for people is a prerequisite. Civil wars and riot depict such situations. Promoting human development can also be an important strategy for furthering human security. By addressing inequalities that are often the root causes of violent conflict, strengthening governance structure, complementing political, economic and legal initiatives, can enhance human security. Lastly we can say that human security is the most important factors for developing human society.