Seminar

December 2012

Shared Water - New challenges for Peace and Development

2012-12-04

This seminar will be broadcasted on "Kunskapskanalen" TV, 6 Feb 2013 at 16.20-18.20, and 7 Feb 2013 at 16.00-18.00. You can also watch it online by searching "Dela Vatten" on urplay.se.

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Time: 9.00 - 15.30 (A light lunch will be offered)
Venue: Utrikespolitiska Institutet, Drottning Kristinas väg 37, Stockholm. T-bana Tekniska Högskolan


Nearly half of the world's population lives in river basins in which the water is shared between several countries. Some of the world’s most conflict ridden regions also suffer from water scarcity. How to share the water is one of the major political and environmental questions on the global agenda - 2013 will be the UN international year of water cooperation. With examples from four important river basins in the world, this seminar will address the challenges and possibilities that shared water brings.

Programme
9.00 Welcome

9.20 Keynote speaker: Professor Ashok Swain, Professor of Peace and Conflict Research, Uppsala University, and Director of the Uppsala Centre for Sustainable Development, Sweden

9.50 The Jordan River: hydropolitics, security and local peacebuilding Associate professor Karin Aggestam, director of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Lund, Sweden.

Coffee

10.50 The Nile: land investments – challenges for peace and development, Dr Ana Cascao, Programme Manager Capacity Building, Stockholm International Water Institute, Sweden

11.30 The Cauvery: stakeholder dialogue experience in attempting to resolve the Cauvery water dispute, Professor Srinivasan Janakarajan, Madras Institute of Development Studies, India

Lunch

13.30 The Okavango: addressing environmental concerns
Mr. Anton Earle, Director of Capacity Building, Stockholm International Water Institute, Sweden

14.00 Questions and panel discussion


Contact person karin.glaumann@siwi.org

UI website

Files:
Jordan River Basin: Hydropolitics, security and peacebuilding
Swedish Water House introduction
Negotiation Through Social Dialogue
The Nile Basin: Land 'investments' - Challenges for Peace and Development?
The Okavango: addressing environmental concerns




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