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This chapter presents a broad overview of the evolving paradigms of thinking and action at the intersection between development and security. This chapter will focus primarily on the major rich countries and the institutions they control, such as the World Bank and the OECD. It is these rich countries, after all, that provide the overwhelming majority of the development assistance and defines the practical terms on which it is given. Recipient countries surely do have a capacity to subvert donor agendas, but they do not set it.
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According to the World Bank website: “80% of the world’s 20 poorest countries have suffered a major war in the past 15 years” (<www.worldbank.org>). Bank lending to post-conflict countries increased by 800% between 1980 and 1995 (World Bank 1998a. 2005a).
This section of the chapter builds on Uvin (2002). With the permission of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development, the original copyright holder, the ideas have been developed further by taking the specific interests and goals of this book into account, as well as the most recent literature.
While the UN General Assembly had a history of declaring that military spending was an outrage for development, this (“anti-imperialist”) statement was not taken seriously by anyone. In Boutros-Ghali’s revolutionary 1994 Agenda for Development, however, entire pages were taken up by this subject (par. 17–40).
Adebajo 2002; Burnell 2004; Collier 2003; Lawry-White 2003; Boyce/Pastor 1998; Smith 2004; Stedman/Rothchild/Cousens 2002; Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs 2004; Crocker/Hampson/Aall 2001; Lund 2003; Chigas/Ganson 2003; Galtung 2001; Cousens/Kumar 2001; Lederach 2002; Uvin 2001; Addison 2003; USAID 2005. On a more methodological level, see also: Church/Shouldice 2003; International Alert 2004; Barton/Crocker 2004; Menkhaus 2003.
See also “European Commission Checklist for Root Causes of Conflict”, at: <http://europa.eu.int/comm / external_relations/cpcm/cp/list.htm>, 8 March 2006.
See Address by H.E. Dr. Kantathi Suphamongkhon, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Thailand, at the Ope-ning Ceremony of The 8th Human Security Network Ministerial Meeting, 1 June 2006, Dusit Thani Hotel, Bangkok; at. <http://www.mfa.go.th/web/200.php?id=16523>.
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Uvin, P. (2008). Development and Security: Genealogy and Typology of an Evolving International Policy Area. In: Brauch, H.G., et al. Globalization and Environmental Challenges. Hexagon Series on Human and Environmental Security and Peace, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-75977-5_8
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