Africa: Facing Human Security Challenges in the 21st CenturyAfrica's dynamic security environment is characterized by great diversity from conventional challenges such as insurgencies, resource and identity conflicts, and post conflict stabilization to growing threats from piracy, narcotics trafficking, violent extremism, and organized crime taking root in urban slums, among others. This precarious environment jeopardizes security at the societal, community and individual levels. In a globalized and