The Complex Security-Development Nexus – Practical Challenges for Development Cooperation and the Military

Abstract

It has become commonplace to emphasize the interconnection between security and development in the context of debates prehensive approaches to international crisis management and peace building. "No security without development and no development w security" has come to serve as an agreeable formula which gained currency not only in round tables and essays but also in policy papers and level strategy documents. But what exactly do we mean by the security-development nexus? What practical challenges does it imply and ar to tackle them? Following these three questions, this article will analyse the understanding and practical challenges from development and m points of view in detail. It will be demonstrated that the security-development nexus has highly different implications for civilian and mil actors. Finally, the findings of this article suggest that both development and military actors have made considerable improvements and ad ments in order to tackle the challenges imposed by the security-development nexus. Though much remains to be done, the main impedimen more strategy-driven common efforts of international crisis management and peace building, however, are due to deficits in cross-departm decision making at the politico-strategic level. 1. What Exactly is the Security-Development impact on: Nexus7 a. The individual dimension of development by negatively irst, we will introduce a development1 point of view. With affecting regard to work in poor and conflict-prone countries and/ • People's daily lives, as insecurity hampers peop or peace building contexts, insecurity has a far-reaching freedom of movement, • People's sense of contentment, happiness, and 'normality', Dr. Fouzieh Melanie Alamir is a senior consultant in the field of governance, " " .. . , , rr , ,. , peace and security and director of alacon reseach, consulting and training. creates an atm She has a long record of teaching, training, research, and publications, having energies and th held positions at the German Ministry of Defence, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation and, recently, the private business company IABG. and Optimism, In this article, we refer to development cooperation when we speak of civili-and traumata an actors. Many of the statements made in this text, but not all can also be ' applied to other civilian actors such as humanitarian aid, the police, disaster . ppe functioning of SOCial networks, as it m management agencies, etc., and their respective perspective on the security-° J development nexus. breakdown, S + F (30.)g.) 2 Abstract: It has become commonplace to emphasize the interconnection between security and development in the context of debates prehensive approaches to international crisis management and peace building. "No security without development and no development w security" has come to serve as an agreeable formula which gained currency not only in round tables and essays but also in policy papers and level strategy documents. But what exactly do we mean by the security-development nexus? What practical challenges does it imply and ar to tackle them? Following these three questions, this article will analyse the understanding and practical challenges from development and m points of view in detail. It will be demonstrated that the security-development nexus has highly different implications for civilian and mil actors. Finally, the findings of this article suggest that both development and military actors have made considerable improvements and ad ments in order to tackle the challenges imposed by the security-development nexus. Though much remains to be done, the main impedimen more strategy-driven common efforts of international crisis management and peace building, however, are due to deficits in cross-departm decision making at the politico-strategic level. Dr. Fouzieh Melanie Alamir is a senior consultant in the field of governance, peace and security and director of alacon reseach, consulting and training. She has a long record of teaching, training, research, and publications, having held positions at the German Ministry of Defence, the German Agency for Technical Cooperation and, recently, the private business company IABG. In this article, we refer to development cooperation when we speak of civili an actors. Many of the statements made in this text, but not all can also be applied to other civilian actors such as humanitarian aid, the police, disaster management agencies, etc., and their respective perspective on the security development nexus.