ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book explains why international organizations and donor countries seek to foster development from the bottom-up and are increasingly seeking to improve the capacity of disadvantaged and marginalized groups to politically engage. It outlines the basic conceptual contours of peace, security, and development and, where possible, identify the interface across these literatures. The book looks at how international, regional, and local actors and institutions are responding and adapting to new drivers of conflict at the nexus of peace, security, and development. Climate change scholars are also looking at the problematic effects of natural disasters, rising sea levels, declining access to resources, and desertification on peace, security, and development. These problems may trigger violent competition over resources and land. Scholars are interested in intersubjective identities like historical memory, religion, and cultural values and beliefs systems and their relationship to peace, security, and development outcomes.
