ABSTRACT
This chapter confronts the challenges of developing a European Union human security strategy for the Horn of Africa (HoA). The first part examines the existing policy perspectives of the EU, the governments of the HoA, and civil society, highlighting tensions between them. It advocates that the EU should promote human security not only through partnerships with governments but also through wider engagement with this broad array of governance mechanisms. The ‘Horn of Africa’ is a region of great diversity and deep poverty. The second section explores the complex factors that combine to generate continuing political turbulence and the absence of a stable regional security community. This demands an approach involving multiple and overlapping multi-lateralisms, including the promotion of regionalised civil society networks. The third part of the chapter provides an analysis of the challenges for human security, including promoting human rights, addressing humanitarian crises and advancing economic development, seeking peace and security, promoting legitimate political authority and good governance, adherence to multilateral principles with a regional focus and civil society engagement, and designing and implementing peace missions with a human rights focus.
