I. CONCEPTUALISMS OF TERMS
VVFor this article we will use a conceptualism of development that is defined as “human development for a greater quality of life for all. It therefore encompasses healthcare, education, poverty reduction, gender equality, disaster preparedness, infrastructure, economics, foreign aid, governance, human rights, environment” and issues that are associated with these1. With regards to security, this article will avoid the large discourse on the difficulties in conceptualism. Although discussed by numerous authors, such as: Murray, Sunga, Roosevelt, and Tadjbakhsh, these theoretical discourses are beyond the scope of this article. Instead, the definition of security used in this article will simply conceptualize security as human security that seeks for the “prevention of violence” [2]. Finally with regards to what insurgency is this analysis will use the same conceptualism as the United States Department of Defense as “an organized movement aimed at the overthrow of a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict” [3]. Therefore, counter insurgency efforts are the “comprehensive civilian and military efforts taken to defeat an insurgency and to address any core grievances” (Ibid).
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Continued: effect of UNSC legislation on gender development programs within Afghanistan. More recently Chris worked in Kabul Afghanistan, in the summer of 2013, as a member of the Afghanistan Public Policy Research Organization (APPRO). While working within this Organization alongside his degree he works as a consultant, assisting with APPRO's work on a UNDP sponsored project to recruit policewomen within Afghanistan and to improve their community perceptions and livelihoods.
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demonstrate how security is fundamentally tied to counter-insurgency (COIN) strategy, so any conversation of security must include COIN as a key aspect of it. The third portion of this article will discuss a normative view of how the relationship between security and development should progress. More concretely, how security should work and how it must be balanced with economic and political reforms, in order to take advantage of an intervening force’s strengths and their available time frame for operations. The final aspect of this article will validate the case with an analysis of how events in the Afghan war prove the necessity of having security and development together. Moreover, how a failed balance of human security and political-economic development created the struggling mission that we see today.