Enhanced human security

Protest movements have arisen in the North, calling for greater concern about domestic human security. Certainly, conditions of human insecurity often stem from a variety of causes, whether personal and context-specific or local, regional, and national in origin. But global challenges also come into play; and many of these challenges affect us all, in rich and poor countries, powerful and fragile states alike. Global public goods (GPGs) share with other public goods the key property of publicness in consumption: being fully or partially non-rival and non-excludable. Assuming that the goal is to promote more sustainable and inclusive global growth and development and, with it, enhanced human security, the following four reforms appear to warrant attention. These are fostering fairness of process and outcome in GPG-related international cooperation; building consensus on a notion of a mutually respectful exercise of national policymaking sovereignty; placing the GPGs themselves at the center of policymaking; and the creation of a global stewardship council.

Computer Science · Global Security and Public Health