Read the passage and answer the questions:
All proponents of human security agree that its primary goal is the protection of individuals. However, there are differences about precisely what threats individuals should be protected from. Proponents of the ‘narrow’ concept of human security focus on violent threats to individuals or, as former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan puts it, “the protection of communities and individuals from internal violence”. Proponents of the ‘broad’ concept of human security argue that the threat agenda should include hunger, disease and natural disasters because these kill far more people than war, genocide and terrorism combined. Human security policy, they argue, should protect people from these threats as well as from violence. In its broadest formulation, the human security agenda also encompasses economic security and ‘threats to human dignity’. Put differently, the broadest formulation stresses what has been called ‘freedom from want’ and ‘freedom from fear’, respectively.
The proponents of the broad conception of human security want to include hunger and disease within its fold because:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → It results in more deaths than other kinds of violences like war and genocide
Option (1) It creates global insecurity regarding environment — Incorrect. The argument is about lives lost, not the environment.
Option (2) It endangers immigration — Incorrect. Immigration plays no part in the argument.
Option (3) It results in more deaths than other kinds of violences like war and genocide — Correct. Hunger, disease and natural disasters kill far more people than war, genocide and terrorism combined.
Option (4) It destroys communal life of human beings — Incorrect. The argument rests on the number of deaths, not on community life.
NCERT (2025-26): “Non-Traditional Notions … All proponents of human security agree that its primary goal is the protection of individuals. However, there are differences about precisely what threats individuals should be protected from. Proponents of the ‘narrow’ concept of human security focus on violent threats to individuals or, as former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan puts it, “the protection of communities and individuals from internal violence”. Proponents of the ‘broad’ concept of human security argue that the threat agenda should include hunger, disease and natural disasters because these kill far more people than war, genocide and terrorism combined. Human security policy, they argue, should protect people from these threats as well as from violence. In its broadest formulation, the human security agenda also encompasses economic security and ‘threats to human dignity’. Put differently, the broadest formulation stresses what has been called ‘freedom from want’ and ‘freedom from fear’, respectively.” |