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escjerps-2797	Okolie, Aloysuis-Michaels; Prince, Ohiaegbu Chiemezue; Okechukwu, Groupson-Paul UC	GLOBAL SECURITY CHALLENGES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF CLIMATE-CHANGE-AS-A- NEW SECURITY-THREAT PARADIGM	2024	32	.pdf	application/pdf	11986	491	42	The following observations emerged from the analysis :(1) following the aftermath of the Cold War and changing menus and priorities of world politics ,the subject matter and foci on security discourse ,security undergone both a “broadening” and a “deepening” as well as a revisioning which significantly led to socially and environmentally reconstitution of human security; (2) the main challenge to security narrative for managing current climate variability still remains how to link economic security with environmental sustainability in a non-dematerializing global economy,(3) the underlying assumptions of mainstream “eco- efficiency” approach to development under the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) is neo-liberalism , at best the merger of environment and economics in decision making masquerading as multilateral mitigation and adaptive measures (MMAMs),and therefore, cannot serve the cause of sustainable human security; finally (4) the search for new paradigms for security must take cognizance of the cascading consequences of existential threat from climate change that do not lend themselves to military response and are capable of producing “deadly pandemics and other natural disasters” with WMD-like effects . Keywords: Africa, Sustainable development, nuclearisation, climate change, new threat paradigm; human insecurity, ecological footprint, Human security.	cache/escjerps-2797.pdf	txt/escjerps-2797.txt