PERTANIKA JOURNAL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES

This research was to develop the concept of human security in the southern border provinces of Thailand. Its concept found by the researcher differed from many scholars and other organizations in some issues because each area marked its own different contexts. Human security needed developed within the contexts of each area. Reflecting the human security concept developed by Ministry of Social Development and Human Security, the Baldwin-based model was related to individual and community security while security for values covered the safety of lives and property, peace and a better quality of life. On the other hand, the security from threats involved being freed from fears of mass media, poverty, narcotics, influential smuggling groups, politics, insurgencies, local people, and the state. In tandem with these findings, security by what means revealed the two elements of the public sector and civilian sector. The public sector involved protection, empowerment, the improvement of local administrative processes and the improvement of policy process based on local areas in development. The civilian sector included involvements in activities, news report and self protection.