Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: Security in the Contemporary World

Question:

According to whom human security is concerned with "the protection of communities and individuals from internal violence”?

Options:

Jawaharlal Nehru

Abraham Lincoln

Kofi Annan

Ban Ki-Moon

Correct Answer:

Kofi Annan

Explanation:

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”