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Background | Objectives | Results | Participants | Contacts & Documents
 Background
Human security today has become a major issue on the international political agenda. Even though there are a wide range of approaches, all actors realise that security is no longer limited only to the traditional view of protecting state borders and territories against external threats. Emphasis is increasingly placed on human security focused on the citizen rather than the state. It is important to underscore, however, that these various approaches do not envisage replacing state security with human security. Rather, they emphasise the need to examine these two aspects of human security, taking into account the various possible threats at different levels (local, national and regional). The workshop on human security should contribute to strengthening the impact of awareness on human security issues, as well as the mobilisation and actions that influence policy‐makers, and state and non‐state actors at both the national and regional levels.
Objectives
The workshop’s main goals were to:
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Facilitate constructive and informed exchanges between West African actors and international partners on the stakes and challenges to human security in the region and prospects for the future;
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Enable lessons learned from national, regional and international human security experiences to be shared;
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Help identify the roles and responsibilities of each category of actor to better promote human security at all levels..
Results
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Take poverty into account as a challenge for human security;
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Put into context the human security issue; identify the challenges and how they are the intertwined;
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Awareness and willingness of the decompartmentalisation of actors (states, ECOWAS, international civil society organisations).
Participants
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6 international and regional organisations: ECOWAS, SWAC, UNREC, UNESCO, UNOCHA, and UNOWA;
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5 regional networks: WANSED, WANEP, WILDAF, Aide et Action, ICG, and ROPPA
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17 research institutes and civil society organisations;
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5 governments (Guinea, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal and Togo);
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14 West African countries and 3 development partners (France, United States, and the European Union)
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