Wars, conflicts and their repercussions on human security

Abstract

Wars and conflicts are considered one of the oldest phenomena known to human societies, and this phenomenon was initially embodied at the level of individual conflicts when they rose to the level of clashes and were primitive in their means and tools. Just as the phenomenon of war began with the family, then the tribe and clan, and ended with the state, since The phenomenon of wars in their traditional form takes a destructive form after they develop to their maximum dimensions, and their occurrence is a conflict of interests and goals of the parties, and it is the final means after other means fail to resolve the conflict or dispute, and wars or conflicts express the conceptual and value contradiction in the component of ideologies, interests and goals between parties that are difficult to achieve. Compatibility among themselves, and that war is linked to human society and expresses its intellectual value and its economic, philosophical and social beliefs when they conflict with those of other parties. At the same time, it expresses the political will of decision-makers through their view of the means by which the goals and interests of their countries are achieved.

 The end of the Cold War witnessed a shift in the nature of the sources of threat, which were not limited to the military threat or aggression from another party, including the emergence of electronic, economic, and environmental globalization, such as poverty, famine, and diseases, in addition to civil wars, terrorism, organized crime, drug trafficking, and the spread of weapons. The nature of wars also changed and no longer existed. Wars or conflicts between countries, most of which have become internal conflicts involving individuals or groups that work to weaken states from within in all aspects, which is why they are difficult to control and which makes the traditional perspective of security incapable of confronting them, which has led to a reconsideration of the concept of human security.