Parallel Sessions I

D) Regional Histories of Development and Security

Conveners:

Henrik Ronsbo, Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark
Finn Stepputat, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

Chair:

Finn Stepputat, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

Speakers:

Henrik Ronsbo and Steffen Jensen, Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture Victims, Denmark
Mark Duffield , University of Lancaster, U.K.
Vanessa Pupavac,University of Nottingham, U.K.
Lars Buur, Danish Institute for International Studies, Denmark

Abstract:

As the concepts of security and development are becoming intertwined, policymakers, practitioners and scholars ask themselves to what extent this phenomenon constitutes a new phase sui generis in the history of development thinking and practice and what the implications are for development as a specific mode of intervention.

Suggesting that security and development interventions have been combined in a number of contexts prior to the end of the Cold War, the panel on Regional Histories of Development and Security will seek answers to the questions posed by the conference by engaging longitudinal case studies of "actually existing" development-security paradigms in different regions.

Hence, we ask panellists to contribute papers that provide an overview of historical confluences of development and security. Through the prism of such regional case studies, panellists are asked to explore the continuities and discontinuities in the confluence of development and security in the 20th and 21st Centuries in order to discuss the specificity and characteristics of the current epoch of security-development confluence.

We ask panellists to consider the changing delineations of the development-security nexus through issues such as:

The provision of security in zones of socio-economic marginalisation, e.g. apartheid and post-apartheid shanty towns
The emergence of national development and security plans in militarised states, e.g. the Asian and Latin American states from the 60s onwards
The objectification in development interventions of risk individuals and groups, e.g. the use of psycho-social interventions to increase security in post-conflict society

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