ABSTRACT
This chapter was originally presented as the keynote address at the conference on ‘Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance: Paradigms of Power and Persuasion’. My focus is human security, which is a subject that captures the essence of an alternative conception of global governance, in which civil society plays a leading role. While national security is the ideology of a state-centric international order, human security is the ideational basis of a people-centric world order underpinned by a global civil society.
