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The shift in UN peacekeeping, from humanitarian focused to today’s robust militarised version, occurred at the same time as the human security paradigm became increasingly dominant within the UN system, at the expense of traditional state security. This is a development which scholars of security studies, a subfield of international relations, has an increasingly hard time understanding. It also has an effect on UN itself; the union wrestles with what it wants to achieve with its security work. Pursuing one type of security usually involves cutbacks in another type. This issue is explored in the thesis by applying both a state and a human security perspective on UN resolution 2100. The resolution created the mandate for the MINUSMA mission in Mali and serves as a good example of modern UN peacekeeping. This thesis examines the extent of which the UN's view of security within resolution 2100 is characterised by state and human security respectively. The research design for this involves creating ideal types of state and human security, applying them to the resolution, and analysing the text using qualitative text analysis. Both ideal types are equally applicable and prevalent in the analysis. The conclusion shows that the resolution includes too many different elements of security in the same text, making it both contradictory and too all-encompassing. The UN struggles with what type of security it wants to pursue and type it needs to pursue. An aim that everybody should be safe from everything isn’t feasible. There is therefore a need for the UN to streamline its use of the term ’security’ in order to avoid further confusion.