National Security Strategy of Belize National Security Vision Introduction National security issues greatly affect Belize’s chances of attaining and achieving all its social and economic goals. This National Security Strategy cohesively integrates the country’s major security goals, policies, responsibilities and actions into one overall master plan for the fulfilment of a National Security Vision. The concept of the NSS encompasses all factors identified to be essential to the security, stability and prosperity of Belize and the protection of the geo-political space of Belize as defined by the Belize Constitution. It integrates Belize’s major security policies, goals, responsibilities and actions into a cohesive whole. It seeks to support the national effort to achieve and maintain a democratic, peaceful, prosperous and stable Belizean society, which maintains human rights and provides the security conditions necessary for social and economic development. The NSS is a catalyst to fulfill the National Security Vision of Belize through the combined use of political, informational, social, economic and security instruments of national power. Government Ministries, Departments and Agencies should critically examine its directives and conduct their own internal appraisals of implications on their roles and configurations. Similarly, citizens and members of Civil Society organizations should scrutinize it and take the necessary steps to contribute to the accomplishment of the national security goals. The NSS shall serve to provide strategic guidance to the Cabinet, generate public awareness, and define the roles of organizations and stakeholders in order for them to synchronize their own strategies and policies A safe, secure Belize at peace with itself and its neighbours, where the security environment allows the development of a peaceful and democratic society that utilises its human and natural resources to ensure social justice, ethnic harmony, security, stability and prosperity. National Security Vision 8