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Security: An Understanding

Societal security can’t be discussed in isolation with the debate and discourse of security and human security, and further human security can’t be analyzed in isolation with the traditional to nontraditional security debate. Generally, the term “security” means a condition where the essential factors such as employment, shelter, food, health, clothing, etc. relating to the individual are secured, and in that situation, survival constitutes the essential part. Booth (2007, p. 106) describes security as “survival-plus” and “plus here is the choice that comes from (relative) freedom from existential threats, and it is this freedom that gives security its instrumental value.” Wolfers (Brauch 2011, p. 61) considers that the concept of security has two sides: first, “security in an objective sense measures the absence of threats to acquired values” whereas in a subjective sense “the absence of fear that such values will be attacked.” By the term “security,”...

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  1. Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, Sikkim University, Gangtok, Sikkim, India

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Paul, S. (2023). Societal Security. In: Romaniuk, S.N., Marton, P.N. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Global Security Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74319-6_359

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