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Paper No. 1 Security: A new African Paradigm by Dan Henk This paper seeks to identify the major trends in ongoing the redefinition of the concept of security in the Western world and in Africa. Dan Henk reviews the literature and ideology that informs the dynamic subject of security. He reveals that the definition of security has ceased to be the exclusive purview of a cliche of politicians or academics. Henk illuminates the emergence of the “pluralistic security concept” which includes the traditional ‘national security’ and newer security dimensions such as ‘environmental security’ and ‘human security’ The paper makes a valuable contribution to the debate surrounding the evolution and redefinition of security. PROFESSOR DAN HENK Professor Dan Henk currently serves as a member of the faculty of the US Air War College, where he teaches strategic leadership and ethics. He has also served as Chair, Department of Security Strategy, Africa Center for Strategic Studies. He holds a Doctorate in Anthropology from the University of Florida. Professor Henk was raised by American missionary parents in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He was commissioned into the Regular Army of the United States in 1970, retiring at the end of a 29-year military srvice having attained the rank of Colonel. In the early 1970s, he served in the United States and Vietnam as an Armored Cavalry platoon leader. He subsequently served in the United States and Germany and participated in the US invasion of Grenada in 1983. Henk’s duties included service as Defense Attaché in Zimbabwe in the early 1990s and accreditation as US Army Attaché to Botswana, Tanzania and Zambia. He has also served as an instructor at the United States Military Academy (West Point) and as the Director of African Studies at the US Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. In his final military assignment, he was appointed Director of African Studies at the US Army War College, Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Contents
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