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第29回奨励賞human security. This concept includes a broad range of issues, such as peacekeeping,poverty reduction or development, yet the focus remains on their effect on thesecurity and welfare of human beings.The human security concept recognises the intertwinement of imminent threatfrom violence and the long-term socioeconomic hazards, arguing that poverty andthe violation of human rights often breed uprisings, ethnic conflicts or terrorism.Accordingly, this essay tries to assess the UN’s achievement in eliminating both kindsof hazards. The first section of the paper introduces the concept of human securityand discusses the connection between conventional and non-conventional aspects ofsecurity. The second section analyses the UN’s role in protecting people in armedconflicts with particular focus on the‘Responsibility to Protect’doctrine. The thirdsection focuses on poverty, one of the most wide-spread long-term hazards to humansecurity. It tries to discover the links between economic development and conflictprevention and the role of the Millennium Development Programme. The final sectionconcludes the essay by pointing out two main factors limiting the UN’s capacity: lackor conflict of political interests and limited funding.2, The Concept of Human SecurityHuman security incorporates the concept of security and wellbeing in a holisticway and can be used as a scale for measuring the UN’s work: the higher the securityof people, the better job the UN does. One of the first contributions to the concept ofhuman security was made by the United Nations Development Programme's (UNDP)‘Human Development Report’published in 1994. It considers both the "freedom fromwant" and the "freedom from fear" as components of human security, defining the1061