Conflict, Security and Development

3 credits · School of Public Policy

The course aims to explore the 'development-security-conflict' nexus. The linkages between insecurity and rising levels of inequality and poverty are many and complex. High levels of conflict and societal fragility undermine prospects of achieving 'freedom from want.' Meantime, development strategies, policies and programs that often generate 'winners' and 'losers' may sow seeds for violent conflict. The course explores what spurs risks of violence, why conflict prevention and recovery have proven difficult to address and how national governments and their international development partners can design policies that can simultaneously address development and peace.