Promoting Human Security:Ethical, Normative and Educational Frameworks in Africa

Abstract

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.