ABSTRACT
The concept of human security is a new approach to security that focuses on the individual human being and provides policy alternatives to the traditional state-centred view, which considers the state to be the only and ultimate referent of security. Formally introduced into the United Nations (UN) system by the United Nations Development Programme’s Human Development Report of 19941 the concept’s intellectual roots are deeper, drawing from international humanitarian law, human rights and human development. It was since the Report’s publication, however, that human security has been progressively integrated into the international security discourse.2
