Security Governance and the Human Right Issue; A Law Oriented Capacity

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and Thought, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Not only do Human Rights facilitate political functions through society, but also promote the legitimacy of political institutions. So Human rights get the right source of domestic and international conducting of the countries. It for being updated has a conceptual, contextual, and structural development in its historical trajectory. State indeed needs to be mentioned on what the global development resulted the good governance to improve its efficiency. The main question is what is related the security governance to Human rights. The hypothesis is that Human Rights by providing human security, sustainable development, and good governance make a proper setting for security governance. Improving accountability in the security sections and providing the people with monitoring increased the state's legitimacy and held it in trust. The security governance deems not to decline the capability of the security sections, rather it pursues self-regulation in managing the society in the right manner. As a result, the paper tries to show where means of self-regulating in the security section

Introduction

Today the concept of human rights, while dictating the behavior of nations at home and on the international level, facilitates politics and advocates for the legitimacy of political systems. The evolution of human rights throughout history has witnessed developments in three areas: conceptual, contextual, and structural. Governments, to improve their efficiency and, in compliance with global developments, have resorted to Good Governance processes, especially when it comes to state security. This paper mainly addresses the following question: what is the correlation between security governance and the issue of human rights? The answer to this question is that since human rights prioritize human security, sustainable development, and good governance, it lays the ground for security governance. In this manner, security organizations’ responses will be reinforced, which, in turn, expands people’s grasp on security mechanisms. As a result, public trust in the government increases which, in turn, ensures the political system’s legitimacy. Security governance, in essence, does not seek to restrict security organizations’ ability to secure the state; rather, it ventures to set up a system of self-regulation to improve and promote proper management as it befits society. This paper expounds on the concept of self-regulation in security organizations.

Theoretical Framework

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is the product of three periods of historical change: The first period began during the French Revolution when countries could no longer resort to the monarch’s divine right as their source of legitimacy. During the second period, highlighted by socialist movements, the historical grounds for securing public liberty were laid out. In this era, the discourse around freedom changed from “freedom from” to “freedom upon.”  The third period saw the movement to show solidarity with the non-Western World’s fight for independence. Today, these three periods are highlighted by the efforts to bring about “human security,” “sustainable growth,” and “good governance.” It is these principles that introduce the concept of security governance.

Methodology

 In this paper, the conceptualization method of research was employed. Conceptualization, as a scientific method, helps one map out the right research approach and theoretical framework for a historical study while laying out its theoretical assumptions. Upon introducing the key concepts of the research, to conduct a thorough research one must follow a standard procedure indicating how to carry out an experimental study that examines the correlation between two variables. This study strives to introduce a new approach to security studies by suggesting a correlation between security governance and human rights. This correlation signals one of the most important, let alone complex, issues that have emerged in good governance studies.

Results and Discussion

The key issue that highlights the importance of security governance is state security or securitization process. In this scenario, governments might use extraordinary circumstances, which may or may not exist, merely to expand their political control. To avoid such circumstances, human rights as a cause strives to maintain human security while advocating for national security. Through sustainable development, it affords everyone a decent standard of living. And finally, by monitoring the governance mechanisms through civil societies in the form of good governance, human rights reduce the need for implementing security measures.

Results and Suggestions

As a result of a historical and comparably long process accompanied by international developments, governments’ political structures have witnessed two changes: First, an inclination toward maintaining the principles of Good Governance as opposed to ruling over people. Second, tendency toward the public’s supervision and control over political systems to ensure their functional capacity. These two changes are rooted in the concept of human rights, which seeks to put forward a political mechanism ensuring a decent way of living for everyone.

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