Human security as a military security leftover, or as part of the human condition?

This brings us, in conclusion, to a new definition of human security. Summarizing the previous discussion, human security can be defined as one of the foundational conditions of being human, including both (1) the sustainable protection and provision of the material conditions for meeting the embodied needs of people, and (2) the protection of the variable existential conditions for maintaining a dignified life. Within this definition it then makes sense that the core focus of human-security endeavours should be on the most vulnerable. It makes sense that risk management should be most responsive to immediate events or processes that have both an extensive and intensive impact in producing material and existential vulnerabilities of people in general or a category of persons across a particular locale. Within this definition we can thus analytically distinguish two kinds of human security. Negative human security concerns the process of overcoming the violation of human rights. Positive human security concerns the process of sustaining the variable and contingent conditions of vibrant human life across all the domains of social life – economic, ecological, political and cultural.