Ghana is perceived as a stable country in a very volatile region and prides itself of becoming a middle-income country in a foreseeable future. Interestingly, the country is gradually but steadily becoming dangerous and less safety for a meaningful existence. Devastating ethnic conflicts, destructive chieftaincy disputes, mob violence and armed robbery among others, threaten the country's development agenda. Ghana in its quest for peaceful and stable society devoid of violence has acceded to and rectified a number of standards and codes including the United Nations (UN) convention on the promotion of human rights; the convention against torture and other cruel, inhuman and degrading treatments or punishment; as well as International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). Besides, the country has institutionalized mechanisms for resolving conflicts including the adversarial courts and Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), where aggrieved members of society can seek redress by passing through the laid down procedure without taking the law into their own hands. In spite of the seemingly efforts made by Ghana to achieve the desired development; ethnic conflicts, chieftaincy disputes and other related atrocities are carried out with impunity in the country. The question is; Are some group of people destined to be violent? Has the criminal justice system (law) of Ghana become a mechanism of control or weapon by the powerful few in the society to keep the relatively powerless at a disadvantage as postulated by the conflict theory? It is only when we have come to the full understanding of human security, its dynamics in a new Ghana, can we fashion out a pragmatic policies and practices necessary to engender the desired development in the country.