Author(s): Ileana-Cinziana SURDU
Publication name: Romanian Intelligence Studies Review
Publisher name: Mihai Viteazul National Intelligence Academy
Publication type: Journal article
Publication date: December 31, 2017
Pagination:
Issue/ Volume: 17-18/2017
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Abstract
Several aspects concerning human communities, societal development and the
social environment converge into issues related to human security. This perspective
offers the possibility of analysing human security in a broader approach than just
violence related aspects.
A complete human security approach would include aspects of social reality: the
economic situation, the status of the environment, the access to food and to health
services, the political situation, the security of communities, and also individual and
family related issues.
Difficulties related to the struggles which families encounter in trying to fulfil
their family responsibilities, their job duties, and personal aspirations, all have an impact
at micro and also at macro level. These issues can reflect on individuals, on their families,
over the community and the society, as a whole, through the vulnerability of the families,
the vulnerability of children, stress related issues, the continuous decline of the birth
rates, a lower professional performance, lower professional aspirations etc. All these
aspects, acting alone or together, may register a negative impact over the economy. Here
is where work-life balance policies, intersected with actions related to the wellbeing and
prosperity of individuals come into act to ensure the human security of citizens.
The paper analyses the policies for supporting the wellbeing and prosperity of
individuals and families, and the policies for supporting the work-life balance of
individuals and families, starting with a short incursion into the essential dimensions of
human security, firstly established by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP)
in 1994, through its Human Development Report (HDR). The study reflects on economic
security, as defined by the HDR, in relation to the human security concerned with the
daily life aspects of individuals: family, community and jobs, analysed through work-life
balance policies. The study analyses the European and on the Romanian normative
framework regarding work-life balance, as determinant factors of human security.
Keywords: human security, individual wellbeing, individual prosperity, work-
life balance policies, economic security, the United Nations Development Program
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