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P03


Do donor responses to insecurity undermine sustainable development? 
Convenors:
Ivica Petrikova (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Melita Lazell (University of Portsmouth)
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Location:
N3 (Richmond building)
Start time:
7 September, 2017 at
Time zone: Europe/London
Session slots:
1

Short Abstract:

This panel explores whether and how donor interventions reflecting securitization of development encourage or undermine sustainable societies and social justice. The panel also enquires to what extent aid programs may be directed towards strengthening donor security at the expense of sustainable development.

Long Abstract:

Western donors have over the past two decades increasingly linked global development with their own national security (Duffield, 2002). This discursive trend has been shown to affect donors’ aid distribution patterns; donors have increased aid for conflict and security activities at the expense of programmes addressing the root causes of conflict and instability (Petrikova and Lazell, 2016; Spears, 2016).

The aim of this panel is to examine whether and how donor interventions in developing countries that reflect the securitization of development encourage or undermine sustainable societies and social justice. Whilst the Sustainable Development Goals recognise that “there can be no sustainable development without peace and no peace without sustainable development”, the evidence suggests that when donor interventions prioritise short-term security goals, the sustainability of development outcomes may be undermined.

This panel seeks contributions that explore the tension between donors’ short-term security interests and recipients’ long-term development needs. We would also be interested in papers that investigate the impact of donors’ securitized aid programming and the impact of the trend toward securitization more broadly on recipients’ sustainable development outcomes, whether theoretically and through empirical studies.

We also welcome studies investigating the policy making processes and institutional mechanisms underlying donors’ decisions to link development programming with national security interests and the integration of security-inspired development decisions and strategies with programmes focused on addressing the Sustainable Development Goals.

Accepted papers:

Session 1