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Water diplomacy and conflict management in the Mekong: from rivalries to cooperation

Year: 2018

Collections: Research Paper

Topics: Water governance, Water diplomacy, Hydropower

Authors: Denise Michèle Staubli Anoulak Kittikhoun,

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Source: Journal of Hydrology

The Mekong region, home to one of the world’s great rivers – the Mekong – is also one of the world’s most geostrategic regions, featuring seemingly conflicting interests among regional states including Viet Nam, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia and world powers such as China and the United States of America.

For nearly a century, some of the riparian states have developed parts of the basin in their territories – to great benefits and harm – and recently the remaining late developing countries are catching up with water and related resources development plans to dam, withdraw and use the mighty Mekong to fund national progress and alleviate poverty.

World leaders, academics, NGOs, media and even some government officials have warned that the current rush to development is not only bringing a sure death to a great previously untamed river, potentially displacing millions of people, and threatening livelihoods, but would also usher in an era of aggravated tensions and possibly even conflict. The Mekong River Commission (MRC), tasked to manage the river for the sake of the environment and the people, is failing its mission with work that has been ineffective, uninfluential and wasted, critics say.

Empowering women in water diplomacy: a basic mapping of the challenges in Palestine, Lebanon and Jordan

Year: 2018

Collections: Research Paper

Topics: Water diplomacy, Gender, IWRM, Water Security

Authors: Natasha Carmi, Mey Alsayegh, Maysoon Zoubi

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Source: Journal of Hydrology

Until now, limited attention has been afforded to the role of, and challenges faced by, women involved in water diplomacy. In addition to research being at an early stage, it is mainly focused on addressing the challenges imposed by gender inequality. Thus very few applicable policy recommendations have emerged in this field to date.

This paper will explore and identify current challenges that face the women interested in attaining high level positions in water diplomacy, in three Arab countries in which hydropolitics prevails, including Jordan, Lebanon and the State of Palestine. Female experts working on water-related issues were surveyed and interviewed to ascertain key qualitative issues, perceptions and various challenges.

Anchoring water diplomacy – The legal nature of international river basin organizations

Year: 2018

Collections: Scientific Publications, Review article

Topics: Water, Water diplomacy

Authors: Susanne Schmeier, Zaki Shubber

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Source: Journal of Hydrology

Water diplomacy needs institutional anchoring. International River Basin Organizations (RBOs) – being the result of diplomatic efforts by riparian states intending to create a framework for cooperation between themselves over shared water bodies – can provide such institutional anchors. RBOs ensure that agreements to cooperate are turned into a long-term commitment by riparian states to jointly manage shared water resources and, in turn, foster mutually beneficial cooperation over time. RBOs have been the subject of detailed examinations of their conceptual core, of their manifold functions, of their effectiveness in achieving their goals and so forth. However, the legal nature of these entities has so far received limited attention notwithstanding its significance in empowering RBOs to act as institutional anchors for water diplomacy.

"Оценка взаимосвязи водных, энергетических, продовольственных и экосистемных ресурсов в контексте Центральной Азии" Синопсис. Правовые аспекты управления водными ресурсами (модуль 2)

Year: 2018

Collections: Manuals, Synopsis

Topics: IWRM

Authors: Януш-Павлетта Барбара, Ибатуллин Сагит, Петраков Игорь, Николаенко Александр, Ахметов Серик Кабдуалиевич

Countries: Kazakhstan

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