The document discusses seven categories of human security: 1. Economic security, including freedom from poverty and access to basic income and employment. 2. Food security, defined as physical and economic access to basic food. 3. Health security, involving access to health care, safe water and environment, and protection from diseases. 4. Environmental security, protecting people from dangers like pollution and environmental depletion. 5. Personal security, ensuring physical safety from violence, crime, abuse, and accidents. 6. Community security, involving cultural survival and protection of ethnic and indigenous groups. 7. Political security, protecting civil and political rights and freedom from oppression.

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H U M A N S E C U R I T Y C A T E G O R I E S
CATEGORIES SIPS, Soka University
Prof. Vesselin Ivanov Popovski
Paola Bellucci - 19M3511

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3. Freedom for Fear
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This school seeks to limit the practice of
Human Security to protecting individuals
from violent conflicts while recognizing that
these violent threats are strongly associated
with poverty, lack of state capacity and
other forms of inequities.
This approach argues that limiting the focus
to violence is a realistic and manageable
approach towards Human Security.
Emergency assistance, conflict prevention
and resolution, peace-building are the main
concerns of this approach.

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Freedom for Want
The school advocates a holistic approach in
achieving human security and argues that the
threat agenda should be broadened to include
hunger, disease and natural disasters
because they are inseparable concepts in
addressing the root of human insecurity and
they kill far more people than war, genocide
and terrorism combined.
Different from "Freedom from Fear", it expands
the focus beyond violence with emphasis on
development and security goals.

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Economic Security
Some of the criteria associated with
economic security include insured
basic income and employment, and
access to such social safety net.
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economic
security
e.g. freedom from poverty

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Food Security
Food security requires that all people at all
times have both physical and economic
access to basic food. According to the United
Nations, the overall availability of food is not a
problem, rather the problem often is the poor
distribution of food and a lack of purchasing
power. According to UN, the key is to tackle
the problems relating to access to assets,
work and assured income (related to
economic security).
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food
security
e.g. access to basic nutrition,
hygiene and food supply.

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health
security
Health Security
is more complex, and covers many different
issues such as access to safe water, living
in a safe environment, access to health
services, access to safe and affordable
family planning and basic support during
pregnancy and delivery, prevention of HIV/
AIDS and other diseases, and to have basic
knowledge to live a healthy life.
e.g. access to health care and
protection from diseases

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Environmental Security
is straightforward and cover such issues as
prevention of water pollution, prevention of air
pollution, prevention from deforestation,
irrigated land conservation, prevention of
natural hazards such as droughts, floods,
cyclones, earthquakes etc.
environmental
security
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e.g. protection from such dangers
as environmental pollution
and depletion

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Personal Security
aims to protect people from physical violence,
whether from the state or external states, from
violent individuals and sub-state actors, from
domestic abuse, or from predatory adults. For
many people, the greatest source of anxiety is
crime, particularly violent crime.
personal
security
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e.g. physical safety from such things as
torture, war, criminal attacks, domestic
violence, drug use, suicide, and even
traffic accidents

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Community Security
on the other hand covers conservation of
traditional and cultures, languages and
commonly held values. It also includes
abolishment of ethnic discrimination,
prevention of ethnic conflicts, and protection
of indigenous people.
community
security
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e.g. survival of traditional cultures and
ethnic groups as well as the physical
security of these groups

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Political Security
is concerned with protection of human
rights and well-being of all people. It also
includes protection against people from
state repression such as freedom of
press, freedom of speech, and freedom of
voting. Abolishment of political detention,
imprisonment, systematic ill treatment,
and disappearance are also covered
under political security.
political
security
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e.g. enjoyment of civil and political
rights, and freedom from political
oppression

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How does human
insecurity affect
health?
How do disease and
adverse health
conditions affect
people’s security?
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health
security

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