The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar on:
Water Conflict and Cooperation in the South – The Local Dimensions
Tuesday, 14 September 2010, 12.30-16.00
Danish Institute for International Studies
Main Auditorium
Strandgade 71, ground floor, 1401 Copenhagen K
Background
Population growth and climate change are often regarded as factors that will lead to increased water conflicts in developing countries in the future. However, to many rural poor in these countries, local water conflicts are already a well-established fact of life, whether as a result of increasing absolute water scarcity or other factors such as unequal distribution of water and the politics of local water development and governance. Importantly, competition for water rarely leads only to conflict, but often also includes efforts of cooperation between local water users. Understanding the nature and impacts of such local water-related conflict and cooperation can help improve the basis for water governance in a context of poverty and increasing demands for water.
The seminar will consist of six presentations on selected key aspects of local water conflict and cooperation. The presentations will draw on the emerging findings from the Competing for Water research programme, which has mapped and explored local water conflict and cooperation in five districts in Bolivia, Mali, Nicaragua, Vietnam and Zambia. In these five districts alone, the programme estimates that some 6,000 water-related events have taken place since 1997.
The presentations will be provided by members of the collaborative Competing for Water research programme, whose partners are in Copenhagen to work on the findings from their research. Further information and documentation on the programme and its partners can be found here.
Programme
12.30-13.00 Registration and Sandwiches
13.00-13.10 Welcome and Introduction
Kurt Mørck Jensen, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Foreign
Affairs of Denmark
13.10-14.45 Panel 1: Understanding Local Water Conflict and
Cooperation
13.10-13.30 The Water Governance Challenge: Key Findings on Local
Water Conflict and Cooperation
Helle Munk Ravnborg, Senior Researcher, DIIS
13.30-13.50 When Water is not the Issue, but the Occasion: Struggles
over Power and Authority in Water Conflicts – The Case
of Mali
Moussa Djire, Professor, University of Bamako, Mali
13.50-14.10 Conflict and Cooperation in Rural Water Development
Projects: Findings from Bolivia, Vietnam and Zambia
Thomas Skielboe, Programme Researcher, Nordic Agency for
Development & Ecology
14.10-14.25 Plenary Discussion, Including Implications for Water
Policy and Practice (IWRM, rural water planning etc)
14.25-14.45 Tea and Coffee
14.45-16.00 Panel 2: Poverty and Inequality in Local Water Conflict
and Cooperation
14.45-15.05 "When more water leads to conflict". Screening of short film
produced by Competing for Water Programme.
15.05-15.25 Role of the poor in Local Water Conflict and Cooperation
Phuong Le, Programme Researcher, Hanoi Agricultural University
Mikkel Funder, Project Researcher, DIIS.
15.25-15.45 Access to local water governance institutions in the context of
inequality
Helle Munk Ravnborg, Senior Researcher, DIIS
15.45-16.00 Plenary Discussion, Including How to Address Inequality in
Water Access and Governance
Chair: Kurt Mørck Jensen, Senior Advisor, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark
Practical Information
The seminar will be held in English.
Participation is free of charge and includes a sandwich lunch, and registration is required. Please use below online registration form no later than Friday, 10 September 2010 at 12.00 noon. |
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