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Space for Gender Equality in the Security and Development Agenda? Insights from Three Donors

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The Securitization of Foreign Aid

Part of the book series: Rethinking International Development Series ((RID))

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In 2004, representatives of the 22 wealthiest foreign aid donor countries met under the auspices of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and agreed to the above statement at a meeting that concretized the donor community’s views on the relationship between security and development. It is tempting to think that foreign aid’s recent alliance with security emerged primarily from renewed interest in national security in the wake of the September 2001 attacks on the United States. However, as the introductory chapter in this volume establishes, this assumption overlooks a lengthier dialogue between security and development communities that grew from the early-1990s turn towards human security as an organizing principle for some donors’ aid and their foreign policy objectives.

Security from violence is fundamental for reducing poverty and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and, more broadly, for sustainable economic, social and political development. (OECD 2004: 2)

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Ottawa, Canada

    Stephen Brown (Professor of Political Science) (Professor of Political Science)

  2. German Development Institute, Germany

    Jörn Grävingholt (Senior Researcher) (Senior Researcher)

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Swiss, L. (2016). Space for Gender Equality in the Security and Development Agenda? Insights from Three Donors. In: Brown, S., Grävingholt, J. (eds) The Securitization of Foreign Aid. Rethinking International Development Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56882-3_9

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