---

Internal securit implies maintenance of peace and order within the country. It is vital because a country face external violence from outside its borders if it is not secured within its borders. The problem of internal security does not exist in most of the European country. It exists in the third world countries of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The newly independent states faced threats from separatist movements which wanted to form independent countries. Sometimes a neighbour might help or instigate an internal separatist movement leading to tensions between the two neighbouring countries. Internal wars constitute 95 per cent of all armed conflicts fought anywhere in the world. Between 1946 and 1991, there was twelve-fold rise in the number of civil wars. So the internal security is also a challenge to the security of the newly independent countries.