Vol. 13 No. 84 (2024)
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Vital security: Rethinking human security in the context of hybrid peace

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  • Igor Ryzhov,
  • Petro Yashchuk
Igor Ryzhov
National Academy of Security Service of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Author Biography

Doctor of Law, Chief Researcher, National Academy of Security Service of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine.

Petro Yashchuk
Institute of Pedagogical Education named after Anatoly Nazarenko, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.
Author Biography

Senior Lecturer, Department of Psychology and Inclusive Education, Khmelnytskyi Regional Postgraduate Institute of Pedagogical Education named after Anatoly Nazarenko, Khmelnytskyi, Ukraine.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.84.12.10

Published 2024-12-30

Keywords

  • human security, vital security, vital potential, armed conflict, hybrid peace.

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Ryzhov, I., & Yashchuk, P. (2024). Vital security: Rethinking human security in the context of hybrid peace. Amazonia Investiga, 13(84), 167–182. https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2024.84.12.10

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Abstract

The study's relevance is determined by the fact that in the 21st century, the problem of ensuring the safe existence of a person has not only retained its acuteness but has also become significantly more relevant due to new challenges, dangers and threats that are becoming global. The international community and individual nation-states have yet to develop sufficient answers to these dangers. Ensuring the individual's security (vital security) about the advent of new hazards and threats to his or her essential interests entails the search for innovative ways. The study aims to systematise knowledge in personal security and to conceptualise effective measures to ensure it in the era of hybridity. The study results in formulating a vision of vital security (human security) in today's era of hybridity, particularly hybrid peace. The study's novelty is the proposed LEGO model of the "pyramid" of vital security. The LEGO model pyramid is built according to the principle similar to Maslow's pyramid but with levels of not rigid nature, which can be supplemented and rearranged according to specific (local) conditions of security landscape and security perceptions. Realist and neo-realist concepts of liberal peace have their gaps and weaknesses in the interpretation of vital security, and there is an urgent need to improve the human security paradigm, considering local specifics caused by the conditions of hybrid peace, which implies a constant state of change and reflects multi-level and multi-problematic cooperation and competition. It is shown that, instead of static-type model, inherent in previous eras, today world of hybrid peace actually represents a model of constant dynamism when all factors interact, distorting the activities of others. Human security in the era of hybridity is thus a flexible and multidimensional entity, and paradigm of its essence and functioning should be improved continuously based on Agile and systemic vision.

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