Understanding Human Security as an Operational Tool

Human security attributes equal importance to civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of individuals and communities.

Human security enables highly localized and disaggregated analyses, revealing the 'real' situation of individuals and communities.

Human security addresses only violent conflicts and extreme impoverishment, excluding natural disasters and health pandemics.

Human security underlines the importance of addressing the totality of conditions that impact human beings.

Human security addresses the root causes of threats only within borders, excluding multi-sectoral/multi-stakeholder responses.

Human security focuses mainly on addressing violent conflicts and extreme poverty, without considering other insecurities such as natural disasters and health pandemics.

Human security emphasizes the need to refrain from looking at people’s lives through the lens of specialized entities or interested parties.

Human security addresses the root causes of threats only within borders, excluding multi-sectoral/multi-stakeholder responses.

Human security enables highly localized and disaggregated analyses, revealing the 'real' situation of individuals and communities.

Human security attributes equal importance to civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights of individuals and communities.