TransAfrica Forum, with the assistance of the TransAfrica Forum Scholars Council, has launched “The Human Security Project.”  The project aims to foster debate on a new inclusive framework for U.S. security policy and its implications for Africa and the African Diaspora, compatible with the emerging scholarly and international consensus on human security. It is urgent not only to replace the disastrous policies of the last eight years, but also to shape a new policy direction that prioritizes inclusive human security, multilateral approaches, and interdependence with other nations rather than focusing narrowly on bilateral and militaristic responses to perceived threats.

The election victory of President Barack Obama is historic in and of itself, a cause for celebration if only as a testament to the dramatic distance our country has traveled along the path of social justice.  The market fundamentalism and unilateral militarism that has shaped the U.S. stance towards the rest of the world in recent years has clearly failed.  Africa and the entire world, as well as the American people, hold enormous expectations for real change.

To read the rest of the Inclusive Human Security document (Feb. 2009), click here

To read the summary of Inclusive Security document (Dec. 3, 2008), click here