Thinking Ahead on Security: What’s Different This Time?
Publisher: FOI - Swedish Defense Research Agency
Author(s): SÄKER
Date: 2016
Topics: Conflict Causes
Can prolonged drought explain the origin of war against the Syrian regime of Assad? Can agrarian reforms and the local security dynamics between different ethnic groups help us understand the conflict in Mali? How can the construction of one of Africa’s largest dams explain the complex security developments in the Horn of Africa? And how can the rapid development of technology facilitate more accurate security analysis? The increasingly complex contemporary conflict panoramas accentuate the need for thinking about security holistically. This brief is one of a series that explains a concept of integrated security, as developed by an interdisciplinary team of scientists at FOI, the Swedish Defence Research Agency.