ブックタイトル佐藤栄作　受賞論文集

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佐藤栄作　受賞論文集

together conflict prevention and post- conflict reconstruction. In order to avoid havinga country which fluctuates between UN maintained“quasi-peace”and full-blownarmed conflict, peacekeepers need to promote profound stability. Stability has manycomponents, for example strong institutions, legitimate government, respect of humanrights, rule of law and economic development. As Figure 1 has indicated earlier, theconnection between the security and welfare dimensions of the UN’s mandate islinked together through state building and development. While PKOs are generallyconsidered to belong to the military dimension, their work contributes to the welfaredimension by creating an environment in which development is possible. This will bediscussed further in the following section.4, Freedom from Want(i) Poverty as Security HazardEconomic stability is a necessary requirement of achieving human security. AstheFinalReportstates:“When people’s livelihoods are deeply compromised?when people are uncertainwhere the next meal will come from, when their life savings suddenly plummet invalue, when their crops fail and they have no savings?human security contracts.”16According to the 2012 MDG Report almost 1.4 billion lived in extreme poverty (onless than 1.25 USD a day) in 2008. 17 That is one fifth of the world population. Povertyrates are highest in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 47% of the population lives in extremepoverty. 18 16 (Human Security Final Report, 2003)17 (The Millennium Development Goals Report, 2012)107418 (The Millennium Development Goals Report, 2012)