ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how peacebuilding and security can be better integrated to address the new security threats of the twenty-first century. It reviews three main security theories that have traditionally underpinned security practices: realism, liberalism, and constructivism. The chapter explores the main integrated frameworks that fuse ideas from peacebuilding and security. It relies on the hard-soft power continuum to frame the linkages of security and peacebuilding. Human security places individual security over a state centered focus and has several components, according to the foundational definition published in the UN Development Report of 1994. The chapter discusses several integrated practices including counterterrorism, human terrain systems, provincial reconstruction teams, security sector reform, disarmament-demobilization-reintegration, and nonviolent observation. Counterterrorism includes methods, tactics, and strategies used to respond to violent, subnational, organized groups that use terrorism as a tactic to achieve their political goals. Nonviolent observers are backed by an extensive international support network, which they can quickly and easily mobilize to pressure attackers.
