Failed states give rise to transnational security threats such as terrorism, piracy, conflict spill-over and refugee flows, making state failure a major source of insecurity today.
Collier and Hoeffler’s economic opportunity theory does not fully account for ethnic and racial divisions, which are primarily culpable for the Angolan Civil War.
Events in northern Africa have helped to enhance ‘Human Security’ as a subject of scholarly research and for legitimate consideration in the realm of International Relations.
The role of children in armed conflict has not fundamentally changed since the end of the Cold War, but the international community’s legal and sociological perception of it has evolved.
Humanitarian intervention creates a human rights conundrum, but it is a crucial tool in stopping humanitarian crises and protecting the welfare of civilian populations caught therein.
As learned from the failure of negotiations in Rwanda and Sierra Leone, the likelihood for parties to commit to an agreement improves if peace is made desirable and continued war costly.
Terrorism is undoubtedly an inimical factor in the pursuit of human security, although it is by no means the only issue and not the most significant either.
The failure of the ICTR to deliver equal justice to RPF war criminals as those Hutus who perpetuated the Rwandan genocide threatens to set a dangerous international precedent.
The EU has adopted a multiple frame approach to counter-piracy, acting in the security, legal, and development frames, but the struggle for a comprehensive approach opens the EU up to much criticism.
South Africa is a complex anti-piracy actor. Due to the nature of the problem facing the country, it approaches piracy with a multi-faceted doctrine that aims to tackle its many dimensions.
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