Security and Development: Investing in Peace and Prosperity

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Robert Picciotto, Rachel Weaving
Routledge, Oct 28, 2013 - History - 388 pages

The new contributions in this book, by acknowledged leaders in the field, examine the delivery of effective aid under fire, and securing the peace in environments where governance is fragile.

They bridge the cultural divide between the security and development professions at a time of unprecedented global economic integration, geopolitical turbulence, and novel threats to international peace and security.

More than a billion people live in countries where governance is weak, poverty is rampant, and economies are depressed. Failed and frail states provide ideal breeding grounds for civil strife, criminality, and "new wars" that target civilians, use children as combatants, and commit massive human rights violations. The new security risks loom within national borders, while the capacity of the international community to intervene 'behind borders' remains inadequate. Policy making for security still relies heavily on military responses. Yet military responses cannot address, and may even worsen, the social and cultural antecedents of civil strife and social resentment. Similarly, development aid policy and practice are poorly adapted to the new realities of frail governance and insecure operating environments in aid recipient countries.

This book was previously published as a special issue of the leading journal Conflict, Security and Development.

 

Contents

1 Preface
1
2 Foreword
3
3 Overview Investing in peace and prosperity
7
4 The new security equation
27
5 Development and security
43
6 A comprehensive framework for human security
71
Three issues in security and development
81
Applying the human security concept
91
15 Violation of human rights is a threat to human security
187
Challenging power and fighting inequalities the role of civil society in addressing root causes
201
Human rights and human security an emancipatory political project
215
issues and challenges
223
Strategic deficits in peace building and conflict prevention
269
Conflict prevention and peace building
277
21 The international community and state reconstruction in wartorn societies
285
22 Reforming security sector governance
313

the policy agenda
95
10 Environmental security as a criterion for decisionmaking
117
lessons for donors
129
12 Limitations of econometric analysis
151
Aid allocation and the costs of neglect
153
policy lessons from studies in the political economy of armed conflict
159
Reforming security sector governance
333
the case of ECOWAS
337
the policy coherence challenge
353
Index
375
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