26 February 2015

New handbook of security and development

A new Handbook of International Security and Development has just been released by Edward Elgar Publishing. The handbook provides a survey of current thinking within the field of security and development, and contains several chapters authored or co-authored by DIIS researchers Peter Alexander Albrecht, Helene Maria Kyed, Finn Stepputat, Louise Wiuff Moe and Louise Riis Andersen.

The contributions from DIIS researchers cover a wide range of pertinent issues that occupy academics and practitioners, including in particular questions related to security sector reform and local ownership. Other topics covered by DIIS researchers include Hybridity and Responsibility to Protect.

As a whole the Handbook explores and interrogates the link between security and development at a global level and offers a guide to the core approaches, methods and issues within this field. It includes contributions from both practitioners and academics. It aims at engaging academics involved in research surrounding security and development, along with practitioners who are interested in the philosophy of their actions and their practical implications.

In addition to the topics covered by DIIS researchers, other chapters focus on a wide range of issues from the politics of aid by remote control through to intervention and the re-establishment of security and demobilisation of combatants. Case studies focus on Sierra Leone, Mozambique, Nepal and Afghanistan.

The handbook is edited by Professor Paul Jackson, Birmingham University, and provides contributions spanning six continents from Syed Mansoob Murshed, Cai Wilkinson, Heidi Hudson, Albrecht Schnabel, Mark Duffield, Nicolas Lemay-Hébert, Lisa Denney, Mark Sedra, Nina Wilen, Norman Mlambo, Timothy Donais, Bruce Baker, Robert Muggah, Steven A. Zyck, Heather Marquette, Laurence Cooley, Rosa Freedman, Danielle Beswick, Geja Sharma Wagle and Alpaslan Özerdem, in addition to the five DIIS researchers.

Story from DIIS.