Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Editors and Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Researching the Security-Development Nexus through a Multi-disciplinary Approach
- Chapter 2 Exploring the Security-Development Nexus
- Chapter 3 Liberal State-Building and Environmental Security: The International Community between Trade-Off and Carelessness
- Chapter 4 The Rising China and Maintaining the International Order: Some Reflections
- Chapter 5 Non-use of Force, Non-interference and Security: The Case of Pacific Asia
- Chapter 6 International Dimensions of Peace Processes in Aceh and Sri Lanka: The Role of Intermediaries in the 2000s
- Chapter 7 The Challenges of Human Security and Development in Central Asia
- Chapter 8 Diasporas' Role in Peacebuilding: The Case of the Vietnamese-Swedish Diaspora
- Chapter 9 Tracing Minerals, Creating Peace: The Security-Development Nexus in the DRC
- Chapter 10 Water Management and the Security-Development Nexus: The Governing of Life in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa
Chapter 2 - Exploring the Security-Development Nexus
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- List of Editors and Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chapter 1 Researching the Security-Development Nexus through a Multi-disciplinary Approach
- Chapter 2 Exploring the Security-Development Nexus
- Chapter 3 Liberal State-Building and Environmental Security: The International Community between Trade-Off and Carelessness
- Chapter 4 The Rising China and Maintaining the International Order: Some Reflections
- Chapter 5 Non-use of Force, Non-interference and Security: The Case of Pacific Asia
- Chapter 6 International Dimensions of Peace Processes in Aceh and Sri Lanka: The Role of Intermediaries in the 2000s
- Chapter 7 The Challenges of Human Security and Development in Central Asia
- Chapter 8 Diasporas' Role in Peacebuilding: The Case of the Vietnamese-Swedish Diaspora
- Chapter 9 Tracing Minerals, Creating Peace: The Security-Development Nexus in the DRC
- Chapter 10 Water Management and the Security-Development Nexus: The Governing of Life in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa
Summary
Development and security are inextricably linked. A more secure world is only possible if poor countries are given a real chance to develop. Extreme poverty and infectious diseases threaten many people directly, but they also provide a fertile breeding ground for other threats, including civil conflicts. Even people in rich countries will be more secure if their Governments help poor countries to defeat poverty and disease be meeting the Millennium Development goals.
(UN secretary-general Kofi Annan, UN 2004, vii)Wars kill development as well as people. The poor therefore need security as much as they need clean water, schooling or affordable health […] DFID, working with poor people and their government and international partners, can help build a more secure future for us all.
(DFID 2005)Introduction
The ‘security-development nexus’ enjoys many guises. Perhaps most frequently, policy makers proffer the ‘nexus’ as description of, and solution to, the pressing and interrelated problems commonly understood to belong under the rubrics of security and development. References to the ‘nexus’ therefore often appear in the form of apparently self-evident approaches for addressing or treating extremely complex issues (such as, for example, the connections between poverty, armed conflict and sexual and genderbased violence). These approaches are usually painted in broad sweeping brushstrokes and receive little further explanation or justification of what is meant by security-development.
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- The Security-Development NexusPeace, Conflict and Development, pp. 13 - 40Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2012
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