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Africa - Facing Human Security Challenges in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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Africa - Facing Human Security Challenges in the 21st Century (Paperback)
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Africa's dynamic security environment is characterized by great
diversity-from conventional challenges such as insurgencies,
resource and identity conflicts, and post-conflict stabilization to
growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent
extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among
others. This precarious environment jeopardizes security at the
societal, community and individual levels. In a globalized and
interconnected world, millions of people worldwide are affected by
some form of human insecurity. Infectious and parasitic diseases
annually kill millions. Internally displaced persons number
millions, including 5 million in Sudan alone. In Zambia 1 million
people in a population of 11 million are reported to be
HIV-positive, a situation much worse in other countries. Potable
water crisis looms almost everywhere. In this book Tatah Mentan
points out the need to shift the focus away from a state-centric
and military-strategic emphasis on security to an interdisciplinary
and people-centric approach that embraces notions like global
citizenship, empowerment and participation. The primary elements of
economic, food, health, environment, personal, community and
political security all comprise the broader understanding of human
security in an intricately interconnected world.
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