Promoting Human Security:Ethical, Normative and Educational Frameworks in Africa
van Wyk, Jo-Ansie
This report examines and analyses the ethical, normative
and educational frameworks for promoting human security in
Africa in the twenty-first century. Africa is one of the continents
most affected by threats to human security.
This study follows a regional approach to human security in
Africa. In each region, the nature of the threats and insecurities
that affect the individual and communities is different. The need
for some states having to establish human security conditions must
be distinguished from other states having to maintain them.
Continent-wide, there is a difference in progress towards human
security between states.
Section II discusses some theoretical approaches to the
concept of human security, followed by an overview of the African
continent in Section III. Section IV addresses ethical, normative
and educational frameworks promoting human security in Africa,
moving on in Section V to discuss and assess the numerous threats
to human security in Africa – political, economic, social,
environmental and external. Section VI set outs the African and
international responses to these threats. The final section offers
some conclusions and recommendations.
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