Match List-I with List-II
| List-I | List-II | ||
| (A) | Narrow concept of human security | (I) | Political violence that targets civilians |
| (B) | Human security | (II) | Threat should include hunger, disease and natural disasters |
| (C) | Terrorism | (III) | Protection of people more than the protection of states |
| (D) | Broad concept of human security | (IV) | Focuses on violent threats to individuals |
Choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 4
The correct answer is Option (4) → A-IV, B-III, C-I, D-II
(A) Narrow concept of human security — this matches (IV) Focuses on violent threats to individuals. Its proponents focus on violent threats to individuals, or the protection of communities and individuals from internal violence.
(B) Human security — this matches (III) Protection of people more than the protection of states. Secure states do not automatically mean secure peoples.
(C) Terrorism — this matches (I) Political violence that targets civilians. It targets civilians deliberately and indiscriminately.
(D) Broad concept of human security — this matches (II) Threat should include hunger, disease and natural disasters. These kill far more people than war, genocide and terrorism combined.
NCERT (2026-27): “Non-Traditional Notions … Human security is about the protection of people more than the protection of states. Human security and state security should be — and often are — the same thing.… 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.… New Sources of Threats … Terrorism refers to political violence that targets civilians deliberately and indiscriminately. International terrorism involves the citizens or territory of more than one country.…” |