ABSTRACT
The contemporary world demands an increasing necessity of linking the concepts of security and development rather than gauging them in isolation, as both terms are defined in a much broader and multiple ways. Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen further justifies this connection by saying that development is closely connected to the removal of major sources of ‘unfreedom’, which is rooted in social deprivation and lack of human security. Arguments started evolving that a society can very well claim to achieve development by eliminating or minimising all forms of human insecurity, such as poverty, hunger, social deprivation, discrimination, and economic inequality. The concept of security, on the other hand, for a long period even after the Second World War has been coined with State-centric and State-based issues. The broader concept of security is inclined more to development issues than to strategic issues, which reiterates the importance of clustering development and security in one framework, where human being is the pivotal variable.
