The COVID 19 pandemic has topsy-turvies global scenario in every sphere. The whole equation and thrust of global politics and economics is now at a new verge. The main question is now – how we can secure human race and humanity. This is the main thrust of the Two-day International Conference on “Human Security & Pandemic” to be held on 23rd & 24th November, 2020.

The concept of Human Security is a fusion of development and security, which has encompassed the broader and non-military nature of security concerns. In the 1990s, United Nations Development Programme developed the concept of 'Human Development' encompassing the health, education and economy of human individuals as the main motto of development. This concept was followed by the concept of 'Human Security', which focusses on securing human beings from both 'freedom from fear' and 'freedom from want'. Thus we see a paradigm shift in the concept of both 'security' and 'development'. From state-centric nature it now focuses on individual. And, unlike the previous way of dealing these two factors individually, people start to address it unified way.

In fact, different world bodies started to speak in favour of 'Development–Security Nexus' from 1980s. For example I can refer the Brandt Report on International Development (Independent Commission on International Development Issues 1980) and the Palme Report on Disarmament and Security (Independent Commission on Disarmament and Security Issues 1982), who connected these two issues in the early 1980s. In this 'coherent' policy approach, security was understood in terms of 'human security'; and 'human security' and 'humanitarian intervention' both indicated a shifting referent of security from 'state' to 'population'. Thus security has in a sense become borderless, globalized and individualized.

But, Covid-19 pandemic situation in 2020 marked a paradigm shift in the security scenario. A war of words started and world is becoming more and more 'realist' and isolated. All traditional defense mechanism failed to control this new enemy of human beings and it is directly hitting on the three key elements of Human Security vis-à-vis Human Development, viz. Health, Education and Income. International Conference on “Human Security and Pandemic” will try to reimagining this changing dimension of Human Security in the Pandemic situation. The goal of this Conference is to improve the standards of the international community of academicians, researchers, scholars, and scientists by exposing them to the latest trends, developments, and challenges in the field.