Which of the following statement is not correct about traditional security?

The concept of traditional security rejects confidence building as a means of avoiding violence.

The correct answer is Option (3) → The concept of traditional security rejects confidence building as a means of avoiding violence.

In traditional security, confidence-building measures (CBMs) such as dialogues, treaties, and military transparency are accepted and encouraged to reduce mistrust and prevent conflicts. So, traditional security does not reject such measures — it supports them as ways to avoid violence and maintain peace.

"In traditional security, there is a recognition that cooperation in limiting violence is possible. These limits relate both to the ends and the means of war. It is now an almost universally-accepted view that countries should only go to war for the right reasons, primarily self-defence or to protect other people from genocide. War must also be limited in terms of the means that are used. Armies must avoid killing or hurting noncombatants as well as unarmed and surrendering combatants. They should not be excessively violent. Force must in any case be used only after all the alternatives have failed. 

Traditional views of security do not rule out other forms of cooperation as well. The most important of these are disarmament, arms control, and confidence building. Disarmament requires all states to give up certain kinds of weapons. For example, the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) and the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) banned the production and possession of these weapons. More than 155 states acceded to the BWC and 193 states acceded to the CWC. Both conventions included all the great powers. But the superpowers — the US and Soviet Union — did not want to give up the third type of weapons of mass destruction, namely, nuclear weapons, so they pursued arms control."