Conflict Nexus

Analytical tools & literature

• Geographic Information System (GIS)
• TWINS: Mirumachi, N. and Allan, J.A., 2007, November. Revisiting transboundary water governance: Power, conflict cooperation and the political economy. In Proceedings from CAIWA international conference on adaptive and integrated water management: Coping with scarcity. Basel, Switzerland (Vol. 1215).
• Telecoupling: Liu, J., Hull, V., Batistella, M., DeFries, R., Dietz, T., Fu, F., Hertel, T.W., Izaurralde, R.C., Lambin, E.F., Li, S. and Martinelli, L.A., 2013. Framing sustainability in a telecoupled world. Ecology and Society, 18(2).
• Financialization: Ahlers, R., Budds, J., Joshi, D., Merme, V. and Zwarteveen, M., 2015. Framing hydropower as green energy: assessing drivers, risks and tensions in the Eastern Himalayas. Earth System Dynamics, 6(1), pp.195-204.
• Basins at Risk: Wolf, A.T., Yoffe, S.B. and Giordano, M., 2003. International waters: identifying basins at risk. Water policy, 5(1), pp.29-60.

Recommended resources

• Open Development Mekong [link]
• Mekong Eye [link]
• The Regional Center for Social Science and Sustainable Development [link]
• Center for Social Development Studies (CSDS) [link]
• WARECOD [link]

Reflections and recommendations by the researcher

These processes are much longer than imagined, it is important to stretch your temporal lens of analysis and to historicize the research. Too often research on transboundary water politics and in particular conflict related research hops from one flash point issue to another and lacks the depth and historical realities of these processes. Particularly with hydraulic infrastructure - what is or is not constructed and for who and the subsequent outcomes of these power laden decisions are multi- Deliverable 6.2 8 decadal issues. The contestations over these processes can endure for a lifetime, so it is recommended to expand the temporal lens of analysis.

Publication(s)

We invite you to read the paper published as part of this doctoral research: Motta, S.; Wolf, A.T. and Schipper, E.L.F. 2023. Immaterial infrastructures and conflict in the Salween River Basin. Water Alternatives 16(3): 793-820 [link]