As a result, speaking about ‘conflict’ no longer fully reflects the multitude of insecurities facing countries. Others have referred to ‘fragility,’ hinting at challenges unique to states with low capacity and extant challenges to their administrative and/or territorial control. However, the lack of consensus around what the term fragility means, as well as its limited applicability to a sub-set of low income countries, makes it difficult to take forward as a clear reference for insecurity. More useful, perhaps, is the term ‘armed violence’ to denote insecurity. This term refers to a broader category of insecurity ranging from conflict to crime, recognizing that ‘simple distinctions between different types of armed violence may have meaning in rhetoric, but they are becoming practically and analytically irrelevant. Therefore, the concept of armed violence adopts a collective meaning and takes into account multiple forms of physical force between individuals’ (Gilgen et al 2010: 7). At the same time, armed violence does not become so broad as to render the concept of insecurity meaningless, as might be the case were a human security definition adopted. While human security is a helpful bridge between development and security debates, understanding insecurity through this lens here would lead to a number of the current MDG targets (such as health and education) falling within the remit. Human security is sufficiently broad that it blurs into human development. Instead, armed violence allows us to consider the pertinence and challenges of including a security-related target in the post-2015 framework, without becoming so broad as to become indistinguishable from other MDG targets. This interpretation of insecurity allows the inclusion of some of the most prevalent threats that people face in many parts of the world but also draws a line at the point that these threats come under the remit of other targets.