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Conflict and National Security in Canada’s Development Policy

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This chapter examines Canada’s merging of security and development from 1997 to 2015 and its policy towards Ethiopia and Kenya through content and discourse analyses of key Canadian policy documents in addition to interviews with key informants. It argues that while the Canadian government has merged security and development in its defence and foreign policy discourse, its development agency CIDA has not brought security into development policy in a significant way. Unlike the cases of the US and the UK where there is an increase in references to merging security and development after 9/11, the pattern of CIDA is the reverse with a decline after 9/11. Whilst CIDA does refer to the importance of security and development prior to 9/11 at a time when Canada was not involved in active conflict, following 9/11 and Canada’s military involvement in Afghanistan, CIDA does not engage with issues of conflict and security in its policy discourse.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Ethiopia official 1, 6/6/2013. Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Ethiopia official 2, 14/6/2013.

  2. 2.

    Telephone interview with Anonymous CIDA official 1, 7/10/2013; Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Ethiopia official 2, 14/6/2013.

  3. 3.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  4. 4.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  5. 5.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Ethiopia official 2, 14/6/2013.

  6. 6.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Ethiopia official 2, 14/6/2013.

  7. 7.

    This refers to increase pay packages and benefits offered as an incentive to CIDA staff to go and work in Afghanistan.

  8. 8.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  9. 9.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  10. 10.

    Government of Canada (2016) Statistics Canada: Trade Statistics http://www.statcan.gc.ca/tables-tableaux/sum-som/l01/cst01/gblec02a-eng.htm (Accessed 9/5/2013).

  11. 11.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013; Telephone interview with Anonymous CIDA official 1, 7/10/2013.

  12. 12.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Ethiopia official 2, 14/6/2013.

  13. 13.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Ethiopia official 1, 6/6/2013. Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Ethiopia official 2, 14/6/2013.

  14. 14.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  15. 15.

    CIDA website on Kenya http://www.acdi-cida.gc.ca/kenya-e#a4

  16. 16.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  17. 17.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  18. 18.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  19. 19.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  20. 20.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

  21. 21.

    Personal interview with Anonymous CIDA Kenya official, 19/6/2013.

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McConnon, E. (2019). Conflict and National Security in Canada’s Development Policy. In: Risk and the Security-Development Nexus. Rethinking International Development series. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98246-5_6

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