“…to protect the vital core of all human lives in ways that enhance human
freedoms and human fulfillment. Human security means protecting fundamental
freedoms – freedoms that are the essence of life. It means protecting people from critical
(severe) and pervasive (widespread) threats and situations. It means using processes that
build on people’s strengths and aspirations. It means creating political, social,
environmental, economic, military and cultural systems that together give people the
building blocks of survival, livelihood and dignity.”