The experience of the last twenty or so years with states emerging from conflict is that you can’t have development without security or security without development. It is becoming widely recognized that security – or freedom of the individual and society from harm and conflict – is a precondition for achieving longer-term economic and social development. It is also becoming widely recognized that longer-term security can only be assured if there is democratic control of the security sector – which in the broadest sense, includes democratic control of the military, the police and intelligence services.