Why is security an "essentially contested concept" and what ways are there to overcome this?

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 1, Utrecht University (Roosevelt Academy), course: Security in the Post-Cold War Era, language: English, abstract: Although it seems that everyone has a basic similar notion of what the term security means and implicates, scholars have struggled to find a coherent definition and disagree on how far the concept can or should be expanded. This essay will show that security is indeed a highly...