The Challenge of Global Insecurity: Understanding and Solutions.
Introduction.
Security can be defined as extra-measures put in place to put off threats to life or existence. It is a mechanism to preserve the organism which could be animal, human or the society we live in. Humanity has shifted from the dark era of caves to the new age of globalization characterized by rapid industrialization, technology, space travel, computers and the internet.
Globalization like any other polarized endeavor has its own problems which are gross in developing countries. Humans now have the capacity to destroy themselves and every living thing contained on earth in the blink of an eye with weapons of mass destruction; they did not only invent the good things of life but also the very lethal of them. ‘Man, the problem, Man the solution’. This axiom holds the mystery to the new perspectives on global security and peace. 
Multidimensional factors for Insecurity.
What actually constitute insecurity? There are many factors, many as human wants. A human being can be psychologically, emotionally, spiritually and materially unsecured. Anything that threatens the integrity or function of the organism or society mechanism poses a form of insecurity. Thus, Insecurity is multidimensional and universal. It is a fallacy to believe that a particular country is immune to security at all times. This should give humanity the impetus to enhance security on a common and global ground.
Violence and her myriad shades and shapes.
Violence comes in various forms and shapes and it is the greatest single factor threatening global security in our contemporary world. It comes as domestic violence, homicide, suicide, genocide, terrorism, territorial invasions, conflicts and full scale wars. Its subtle shapes include racism, casteism, hunger, poverty, persecution, phobias, slavery, colonialism, neocolonialism, human trafficking, environmental pollutions, propaganda, cyber-attacks and exploitation.
Anatomy of modern day terrorism.
Today, terrorism, conflicts and full scale wars are the obvious forms of violence that human beings have acknowledged as threats to global security because these tend to affect the society on a visibly geometric scale. The new perspective should begin to recognize other forms and shapes of violence which often are not as conspicuous as conflicts and terrorism.
Just this November, Islamic state terrorist group claimed responsibility for the attacks that occurred in Paris and Beirut. The incessant terrorist attacks on civilian population since 9/11 is quite numerous.
Jihadists’ attacks have actually paved way for Islamophobia, a new form of fear that would take decades to be removed from our hearts. Nigeria is still battling the deadly Boko haram insurgency. The conflict in Ukraine is still at the mercy of the old cold-war grudge. The Middle-East crisis has remained the cynosure of the world since 1948. History has not spared a single people or nation from acts of violence. Iraq, Syria, Somalia, Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Egypt and other crisis-ridden areas of the world are experiencing their furnaces in the presence of an ineffective global security! 
Links to global financial crisis.
The recent financial crisis that nearly engulfed the world could be as a result of extravagant spending on security, espionage, weapon making, nuclear proliferation programs and propaganda by the super powers. Humanity just like the earth is subtly linked. If one part of humanity or the earth is affected, the whole humanity and earth would be affected. This premise gives room for my new perspective on global security policy.
More needs to be done.
Enough is not been done on global security network and defence. Emphases have been on regional security. For example, the European Union has NATO but the transatlantic bond is weakened as a result of Russia’s incursion. Europe has never envisaged the crisis in Ukraine nor expects it to protract this long. Terrorist organizations have continued to register their presence in the media because they have learnt what the conventional society has refused to learn: global networking and integration.
New perspective on insecurity.
We should shift regional and national security system to global security network and defence in addition to strengthening regional security. My new perspective is about solving the remote causes of insecurity on a global scale.
The globe should begin to enjoy social justice, security should be promoted via dialogue frameworks and there should be strict gun laws. Disarmament programs should be done with trust, disadvantaged social classes should be empowered and double standards, played by super powers should be eliminated.
The united nation organization must be reformed to accommodate global opinions and to reflect a truly international security organization, world countries should spend less on weapons and more on job creation, the use of unmanned aerial system should be intensified and there should be a strengthening global cyber security mechanism.
Conclusion
Violence is a real threat to humanity. Unlike in the past, attention should now be given to intangible forms of violence which mostly affect mental balance of victims. Global security is should be a multidimensional approach leveraged by all countries of the world. The principle of superpowerism have negatively impacted true peace and unity of the world.
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