O-2006/2: The Role of Regional Integration in the Promotion of Peace and Security
This paper explores the relationships between peace, security and regional integration,presents current global developments and challenges on regional and globalapproaches to peace and security, and recommends concrete measures to facilitatepeace and human security that can be taken within the ACP – EU cooperationframework.
Human Security: The link between development and security
In the 21st century African, Caribbean and Pacific countries continue to be challengedby a variety of complex socio-economic, political and development problems andsecurity threats. The most devastating of these include intra-state wars and armedconflicts, with considerable regional consequences due to the regionalisation ofdomestic civil wars. ACP countries still lack the critical mass of sustained expertiseand capacity for conflict prevention, management and resolution and peace-building.Thus, differences in opinion continue to ignite violence, destabilising regions andpreventing investment, productivity and growth. Violent civil wars and multiplesecurity threats in ACP countries have seriously undermined the attainment ofeconomic integration, development and democratic consolidation objectives. This isrecognised by the European Commission in its proposed ‘EU Strategy for Africa:Towards a Euro-African pact to accelerate Africa’s development’, which emphasizesthat peace and security are ‘first essential prerequisites for sustainable development’and to achieving the MDGs...
Translation kindly provided by the George C. Marshall Center.