Human Security and Development: Divergent Approaches to Burma/Myanmar

Abstract

This paper contends that the human security/development nexus lies at the heart of contemporary approaches to peace‐building and development. The paper addresses not only the consequences of human security policy prioritization as a development objective by Canada and Japan, but also the hypothesis that different understandings or interpretations of human security are reflected differently in the policy domain. Burma/Myanmar, one of the least developed, and, in terms of human security, most vulnerable states in the world, is used as a case study to address these different policy implementations.