... Wilkin 2002). It is in this contemporary climate that Wilkin fears an international focus on long-term poverty reduction will be reduced and that needs, as a result, will be neglected in the search for a regime of aggregate global security. In the sense that perhaps a new incarnation of 'development' is very much alive and in the sense that this new incarnation may have negative consequences for those lacking the power to do with theirs what they will, a critical overview of an alleged and burgeoning 'development-security terrain' must be held throughout this paper (Duffield 2001:10). Indeed and to establish the not-forgotten question: how, if it exists, does this terrain inform and reform a concept NGOs have come to know as 'peacebuilding'? Is it this understanding of peacebuilding that NGOs want to incorporate into their development work in the first place? These wide conceptual questions are challenges in themselves ...

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