ABSTRACT
Conventional understanding reveals that human security has been examined as a policy-making enterprise par excellence. The ‘official history’ of human security is full of references to political documents, with the UNDP Report of 1994 being highlighted as the most important one as it, allegedly, established this alternative paradigm. Some analysts go even further and trace its origins in a series of reports (the Brandt Report, the Palme Report and the Brundtland Report) that broadened the concept of security during the 1980s. It is not surprising that some scholars go even further back into the past, as is always the case with any search for roots of anything. What is surprising, however, is that the obsession with the roots at the policymaking level has structured almost all academic debates which have concerned human security as the centrepiece till date.
