BELGRADE – SERBIA
500+ participants / 80+ panelists / 16+ panels
BSC2024
18-20 NOVEMBER
Day 3
12:45 – 13:45
(parallel session)
(parallel session)
Revisiting Human Security in Southeast Europe: The Role of Regional Cooperation
| Human security can be broadly defined as the protection of individuals’ fundamental freedoms and rights, ensuring their livelihood and dignity. Freedom from fear, freedom from indignity, and freedom from want are three pillars upon which the concept of human security is built. Amid today’s poly-crisis, with a barrage of multidimensional and interconnected crises succeeding and reinforcing one another, the UN’s latest reports show a global decline in human development following the pandemic, with uneven recovery across economies. Southeast Europe (SEE) is no exception. Delays in advancing the build-back-better agenda have eroded people’s sense of security. Almost half of the global population does not feel safe, and the SEE region is again not an outlier. The multi-crisis spills over into people’s lives and undermines key aspects of human security. The South East Europe (SEE) 2030 Strategy, adopted by the South East Europe Cooperation Process (SEECP) in 2021, prioritises enhancing human security and resilience in the SEE region and mandates the Regional Cooperation Council (RCC) Secretariat to facilitate the implementation of SEE2030. The session will explore two critical questions: Have the war in Ukraine, the Middle East conflicts, and rising tensions among global powers shifted the focus back to traditional national security at the expense of human security? How can regional cooperation in Southeast Europe improve human security conditions in the face of both internal and external challenges? |