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Security and Freedom for Refugees

Security refers to freedom from potential harm caused by others and resilience against unwanted change for persons, social groups, objects, institutions, and ecosystems. It involves protection from hostile forces but also encompasses the absence of harm through having essential goods and resilience against damage. The term security is also used to describe acts and systems that aim to provide protection and monitoring to keep things contained and secrets private.

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Security and Freedom for Refugees

Security refers to freedom from potential harm caused by others and resilience against unwanted change for persons, social groups, objects, institutions, and ecosystems. It involves protection from hostile forces but also encompasses the absence of harm through having essential goods and resilience against damage. The term security is also used to describe acts and systems that aim to provide protection and monitoring to keep things contained and secrets private.

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Security is freedom from, or resilience against, potential harm (or other

unwanted coercive change) caused by others. Beneficiaries (technically referents) of security


may be of persons and social groups, objects and institutions, ecosystems or any other entity or
phenomenon vulnerable to unwanted change.

Refugees fleeing war and insecurity in Iraq and Syria arrive at Lesbos Island, supported by Spanish
volunteers, 2015

Security mostly refers to protection from hostile forces, but it has a wide range of other senses:
for example, as the absence of harm (e.g. freedom from want); as the presence of an essential
good (e.g. food security); as resilience against potential damage or harm (e.g. secure
foundations); as secrecy (e.g. a secure telephone line); as containment (e.g. a secure room
or cell); and as a state of mind (e.g. emotional security).
The term is also used to refer to acts and systems whose purpose may be to provide security
(e.g. security forces; security guard; cyber security systems; security cameras; remote guarding).

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