No. 40: Security and Development

Convergence or Competition?

Author(s): Daniel Trachsler
Editor(s): Daniel Möckli
Series: CSS Analyses in Security Policy
Issue: 40
Publisher(s): Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
Publication Year: 2008

Security and development are increasingly regarded as overlapping policy fields. While their goals may intersect in view of the links between poverty, violent conflict, weak states, and terrorist challenges, they are not always congruent. The political challenge is increasingly to coordinate strategies and measures of security policy and development policy, without placing the fight against poverty one-sidedly into the service of peacebuilding.

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