Abstract:
Concept
of Human security acquired ubiquitous presence in the post cold war world
order. Human security is people oriented concept rather than state centric
concept. Here attempt has been made to uncover the meaning of human security
and to search if there is any correlation among human security and armed
conflict or terrorism in specific with the help of case study of the Afghanistan
from period 1996 to 2011. Paper begins by detailing about concept of human
security and its position in context of terrorism. Later part of article
endeavours to search for convergence and divergence among issues of human
security and terrorism with regard to the Afghanistan in three phases.
Engagement of human development indicators were seems to be helpful in this
regard. Role of Taliban regime, Global
war on terror and its implication are also touched upon. Paper concludes on the
note that we can find both convergence and divergence in terms of human
security and terrorism but we cannot make it as universal norm. Terrorism has
several dimensions and we need to have much deeper analysis to understand this
complex phenomenon. In context of the
Afghanistan lack of ‘human security’ created fertile ground for breeding of
terror activities but presence of external forces, lack of participation
of indigenous / native tribes and
enforcement of alien way of life played certain role in resurgence of Taliban
and upsurge of terror activities.
Key words- Human security, Terrorism, Convergence, Divergence, Afghanistan
