Why human security is more important in the contemporary world than territorial security?
Why human security is more important in the contemporary world than territorial security? weapon. It is a war against democracy and a crime against humanity:
1. Terrorism refers to political violence to target civilians deliberately and indiscriminately.
2. Civilians are targeted to be terrorized to use it as a weapon into this war.
3. Even, the US superpower could not escape itself from terrorism and it became a global phenomenon i.e. terrorist attack on World Trade Tower on 11th September 2001.
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Human security is about the protection of people more than the protection of states because during the last 100 years more people have been killed by their own governments than by foreign armies:
1. Protecting citizens from foreign attack ‘
2. Security from violent threats
3. Security from threats to human dignity.