Re-visiting My Security Essay

             In my original security essay, I said that security overall is national security, but we cannot achieve national security without human security. Now that the semester is over and we have spoken about a variety of security issues I think that security is a combination of both national and human. National security is equally as important as human security, it all depends on what topic or issue is being discussed.
             In my essay I said how the word security itself is a problem, because it has a narrow and vague definition. However, I see why that is now. A terrorism is just much a security issue, as is human trafficking. Yet, terrorism would fall under national security, while human trafficking would fall under human security. The reason for this is because the way that national security deals with things is very different from how human security does. National security tends to deal with more of quick and short term problems and solutions, while human security is the opposite. Human security deals with long term problems and solutions. However, one cannot argue that one is more important than the other. We need to focus on both forms of security as equally important. Since they both deal with such wide issues, both need to recognize one another.
            Many would argue that national security should be the only form of security, but this should not be the case. Many times human security is overlooked which creates a problem. Our discussion of Ebola is an example of this. Ebola was a situation that was a national security issue, and a human security issue. Many people died because the right protocol wasn't made and action wasn't taken fast enough. Yet, if officials who were in charge of it saw that it was both a national and human security issue than perhaps more would have been done. It was national in the sense that it spread so quickly that it didn't just effect one region. Officials should have made the call and labeled it an international state of emergency. On the other hand, if officials would have taken the human security route, they would have seen that the amount of individuals that were dying wasn't right.  The way this epidemic affected them and the symptoms should have called for a faster response. In the Ebola incident we see how curtail it is to have both national and human security.
             National security, along with human security should both be prioritized. However, depending on the situation at hand, one would most likely be prioritized more than the other. With that being said, I cannot sit here and say that one form of security trumps the other. They are both equally important and need to be labeled as top security issues.