Water Conflicts applies cutting-edge thinking to identify pathways that can transform complex water conflicts. It challenges existing power-blind and politics-lite analysis that is very deeply-held and recurring in debates that suggest causal links between scarcity and violence-or peace. This book presents a much needed revision of transboundary water analysis, leading to a rethink on the way water is used and contested, with a focus on harm experienced both by the most vulnerable water users and the environment. Recognizing that conflicts are never static, Mark Zeitoun, Naho Mirumachi, and Jeroen Warner's "transformative analysis" provides multi-disciplinary tools and perspectives to understand and address the complexities involved. The approach is stress-tested through dozens of examples around the globe, and it incorporates collective evidence and knowledge of the London Water Research Group. The insights on water diplomacy will be most welcome by analysts, activists, diplomats, and all others tackling water conflicts. Seeking to motivate improvement of transboundary water arrangements towards further equity and sustainability as a practical agenda, the book is a fresh antidote to the detached role that researchers and policymakers often play.
1. Transformative Analysis
1.1 Failed diplomacy on the Nile and Jordan
1.2 Some lessons we've learned
1.3 How critical research is helpful
1.4 What is transformative analysis?
2. Starting Points
2.1 Sustainable arrangements will not come through conflict management
2.2 Water flows and cycles
2.3 Water is altered by human activity more than by nature
2.4 Thirst can be satiated, or created
2.5 Water flows through political borders...
2.6 ... yet remain subordinate to politics and power
2.7 There's a lot more going on than meets the eye
3. The Pathways to Conflict Transformation
3.1 Mapping the pathways
3.2 Researching hegemonic arrangements
3.3 Knowledge(s) matter
3.4 Scales matter
3.5 History matters as much as the future does
4. Transformative Concepts and Tools
4.1 Conflict and cooperation co-exist
4.2 Power matters
4.3 Hegemony
4.4 Counter hegemony
5. Understandnig Transboundary Institutions
5.1 Model agreements and treaties
5.2 Sharing benefits and spotting opportunities
5.3 International Water Law
6. Examples of Transformative Analysis
6.1 How transformative analysis may be useful
6.2 Trends toward destructive cooperation on the Mekong
6.3 Challenging narratives on the Yarmouk tributary to the Jordan River
6.4 Destructive cooperation in the Plata River basin
7. Final Thoughts
7.1 Innovating analysis is the foundation for conflict transformation
7.2 Some useful heuristics
7.3 Room for improvement
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