Sustainable development and international security

Jacques Fontanel () and Fanny Coulomb ()
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Jacques Fontanel: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble
Fanny Coulomb: CESICE - Centre d'études sur la sécurité internationale et les coopérations européennes - UPMF - Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 - IEPG - Sciences Po Grenoble - Institut d'études politiques de Grenoble

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Abstract: Development is considered as a situation of progressive and irreversible improvement of the economy, to the benefit of all humans. Speaking of « sustainable » development seems, in this context, a pleonasm. However, sustainable implies some values that economy, in its fundamental selfishness, seems to have forgotten. It is so for ecology, environment, health and education. Security is an essential component of a durable development and armament is often a powerful brake for sustainable development if it is possible to reduce predation and wars. Disarmament is interesting, but a situation of peace is not necessarily preferable to a situation of conflict, tyranny, slavery or non- respect of the human rights. Peace is a basic need for sustainable development.

Keywords: Sustainable development; peace; war; security; Développement soutenable; paix; guerre; sécurité (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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Published in Proceedings of the XII International Almadi Conference of Academies of Sciences and national scientific societies on problem of global security, Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, 2000

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