ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the implications of human security as a way of integrating the development discourse into debates about security, and vice versa. The chapter looks at competing ideas of what 'development' might mean in this context. The US Africa Command was created as a separate entity from other US regional commands in 2008. The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Human Development Report of 1994 is widely regarded as having signalled a sea-change in thinking about security, encouraging policymakers focus from nation-states to individuals. The World Development Report (WDR) offers overview of trends in violent conflict and of the presumed links between development and security as far as the World Bank and like-minded donors were concerned in 2011. The identification of security, particularly human security, as a goal of development has led donor states and institutions into new partnerships with the militaries and security sectors of fragile states.
