Asumarea dimensiunii umane a globalizării
Assumption of the human dimension of globalization

Summary/Abstract: Traditional security focuses on States, for its fundamental purpose is to protect citizens against outside dangers. Economic issues and some forms of globalization entail diminution of their capacity to provide security to citizens, while in case of conflicts such incapacity becomes chronic. Human security holds people above all other concerns and acknowledges that their safety is part and parcel of the promotion of peace and peacekeeping. The human security concept allows for new perspectives and options of involving the United Nations Organization with the management of globalization. Human security shifts the focus from the protection of the State and its institutions to that of the population within its borders and beyond. The universality and the independence of human rights are acknowledged universally, while human security provides the cognitive and the practical framework for identifying the rights and the obligations affected in particular conflict situations. The international protection of human rights system adds the acknowledgement of the ethic and political importance of human security to the notion of global obligations and duties. However, the economic globalization era and the relative triumph of the figures referring to the GNP, the world trade and the values generated on the international capital markets cannot disguise such realities as inequalities, marginalization, environment degradation, the dilution of the moral values, or the decline of humanism as a governance principle. This is the reason why the need has been felt that the traditional range of gross indices for material and technological growth should be added a new generation of indices, one to include more information about meeting human needs in the economic development process.

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