Insecurity is manifest to the human condition, whether this insecurity is found in the external circumstances of ones lives, internally due to psychological stress; this insecurity can be, and is, the combination of these specific factors. When applying a logical, "Western" academic framework to human insecurity in humanitarian/conflict situations, it is important to bear in mind our own psychological conditions, our own mental insecurities, and understand how these translate into our concern and our constructs for others' insecure physical situations. Important parallels can link physical and mental insecurity; these conditions are often thought of as outside our control, as something we must bear witness to, suffer through, however humanely or inhumanely this suffering might be; we, and they, are commonly seen as observants in the grand mechanisms of suffering; however, this is a rather simplistic view, one that takes the impetus away from action, from examination, whether this be self-or-other examination, and change as a result of this critical investigation.
