Human Security Centre

The Human Security Centre (HSC) is an international, independent, not-for-profit foreign policy think-tank based in London, United Kingdom. The HSC promotes the concept of human security as a necessary supplement to traditional state security and as a central pillar of modern foreign policy. It aims to educate the public and inform the policy debate at the domestic and international level about current and emerging threats to human security, and to promote an international society wherein individuals and communities can live free from fear, free from want and free from indignity. While the HSC recognises that individuals and communities may face threats that cut across multiple human security domains, it focuses on threats pertaining to conflicts, mass atrocity crimes and human rights violations. It emphasises the importance and universality of human rights and fundamental freedoms, promotes democratic values and warns about the dangers of isolationist foreign policy. Its wo...