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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
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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