Every five seconds is one child under five years dying from starvation. Globally 795 million individuals are suffering from chronical hunger. More than half of the world’s population is living on less than 1.25 US Dollar a day. These are the recent numbers of the 2015 Human Development Report released by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), which aims to eradicate poverty and to shrink inequalities.

People are exposed to cross-cutting threats – from environmental catastrophes to diseases, from political instability to terrorism. Globalisation has made the world more vulnerable since the lifting of trading barriers has facilitated threats spilling over the borders. Consequently, many of the problems afflicting the world cannot be handled merely at the national level. 

The traditional security paradigm became overstretched and Human Security and Globalisation are aimed at making the state redundant. Scholars argue, that the nation-state lost its monopoly and instead the world is tilting towards a global governance.

What impacts does this change have on Human Security?