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.
Kofi Annan was the Secretary General of -
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → United Nations
The passage quotes “former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan”. Kofi A. Annan of Ghana was the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. He created the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, set up the Peacebuilding Commission and the Human Rights Council in 2005, and was awarded the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.
Note: This passage is taken from the NCERT chapter ‘Security in the Contemporary World’, word for word. Read the chapter fully, the sections on new ideas of security included; all five questions of this passage come from one page of it.
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”. … Contemporary World Politics - Chapter 4, UN SECRETARIES-GENERAL: … Kofi A. Annan (1997-2006) Ghana; UN official; created the Global Fund to fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria; declared the US-led invasion of Iraq as an illegal act; established the Peacebuilding Commission and the Human Rights Council in 2005; awarded the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize.” |