Publication

The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the value of the security community approach in analysing developments in the Southern African region. Prior to engaging in the discourse of the security paradigm in the Southern African region, the paper provides a general profile of the contributions to the debates on the approach. It then addresses in a direct manner the locus of human security in the debate of security community in the region in an approach that has been argued to be essentially statecentric. The paper then gives a more detailed conceptual discussion in respect to the southern African region.