How the 9/11 decade changed the aid, security and development landscape
This ODI Opinion reflects on the impact of 9/11 on the aid, development and security landscape and explores how development and security concerns merged in a new lexicon, which includes the notion of building 'resilience' (encompassing concerns with disaster risk reduction, conflict, humanitarian action, climate change, social protection, market volatility etc.). This raised hopes for development approaches that might better combine action to assure the human security of poor people with orthodox social and economic development. It also, however, raised fears that the 'securitisation' of aid would undermine both development and humanitarian action.
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