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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cascão, Ana Elisa
• Fekade, Wubalem
• Grossmann, Malte
• Seid, Abdulkarim
• Schmeier, Susanne
• Kittikhoun, Anoulak

Titel

Water diplomacy and conflict transformation in the Nile River Basin: The key role of the Nile Basin initiative over the past 20 years

Ist Teil von

• River Basin Organizations in Water Diplomacy, 2021, p.141-162

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The chapter addresses the tensions around water resources development, including dam building, in the Nile and the role of the Nile Basin Initiative in addressing them. The authors suggest that the role of the NBI can be defined as one of “conflict transformation”: 20 years after its establishment, it is possible to show how the NBI process has contributed to transform the regional hydropolitical relations. Transformation into “what,” how, and with what kind of outcomes will be discussed in this chapter. This chapter addresses the tensions around water resources development, including dam building, in the Nile and the role of the Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) in addressing them. It suggests that the role of the NBI can be defined as one of “conflict transformation”: 20 years after its establishment, it is possible to show how the NBI process has contributed to transform the regional hydropolitical relations. Transformation involves understanding the root causes of the conflict—not only the hydrological, economic, environmental, or social, but above all the political and diplomatic causes. The chapter provides analysis and discussion of the different complementary and reinforcing mechanisms of water diplomacy promoted under the NBI process. The hydropolitical disputes in the Nile Basin have long been associated with legal agreements. When the NBI came into existence in 1999, it was the first institutional setup in the Nile Basin that included all riparians, contrary to previous cooperative attempts in the basin.