Security, Resilience and Resistance in the PICs: Aligning Priorities and Relocating Responsibility

Our aim in Mapping Security in the Pacific was to bring into focus and contextualise the complexities of security in the Pacific, examine how a range of (in)securities are produced and resisted in the region, and explore the implications for theorisation and policymaking on security. In this final chapter, we first highlight some key emergent themes in relation to reframing security, gendered insecurities and organisational culture in security provision. Drawing on the arguments in the volume, we then propose that if security and resilience are to be sustainable and ongoing, there is an urgent need to align security priorities locally and globally, as well as reconfigure the political economy of relationships, identities and ‘traditions’ and their place in the ‘modern’ state as potential sources of resilience in security provision. We suggest that Pacific communities and states are well-placed to provide key leadership, resources and knowledge in these processes