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Middle East water conflicts and directions for conflict resolution

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  • Wolf, Aaron T.

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Because of water's preeminent role in survival, political conflicts over international water resources tend to be particularly contentious. The intensity of a water conflict can be exacerbated by a region's geographical, geopolitical, or hydropolitical landscape. Water conflicts are especially bitter, for example, where the climate is arid, where the riparians of regional waterways are already engaged in political confrontation, or where the population's water demand is approaching or surpassing annual supply. Each of the three major waterways of the arid and volatile Middle East the Nile, the Jordan, and the Tigris-Euphrates systems have elements of all of these exacerbating factors. Scarce water resources have already been at the heart of much of the bitter, occasionally armed, conflict endemic to the region. This brief analyzes the hydropolitics of the Middle East and the relationship between water and the peace process.

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  • Wolf, Aaron T., 1996. "Middle East water conflicts and directions for conflict resolution," 2020 vision briefs 31, International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI).
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    1. Webb, Patrick & Iskandarani, Maria, 1998. "Water Insecurity and the Poor: Issues and Research Needs," Discussion Papers 279785, University of Bonn, Center for Development Research (ZEF).
    2. Soheila Zareie & Omid Bozorg-Haddad & Hugo A. Loáiciga, 2021. "A state-of-the-art review of water diplomacy," Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 2337-2357, February.
    3. John Waterbury & Dale Whittington, 1998. "Playing chicken on the Nile? The implications of microdam development in the Ethiopian highlands and Egypt's New Valley Project," Natural Resources Forum, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 22(3), pages 155-163, August.
    4. M.K. Mahlakeng, 2018. "China and the Nile River Basin: The Changing Hydropolitical Status Quo," Insight on Africa, , vol. 10(1), pages 73-97, January.

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