Analytical Tools for Identifying Water Conflict Risks

Aug 29, 2019 | adelphi, Deltares, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs, Germany, IHE Delft, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands, and World Resources Institute
Stockholm, Switzerland
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This event will discuss how early warning tools can contribute to better policy responses for mitigating water conflict risks. Bringing experts from the foreign, defence, development, disaster risk and water communities together, its interactive format will facilitate discussion with the audience on ways to identify and minimize water conflict risks.

Secular progress across most Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has recently halted and even been partly reversed by a rebound in the number and intensity of armed conflicts. With an increasing share of SDG shortfalls linked to conflict and fragility, living up to the ambition of leaving no one behind will require far greater success in preventing and mitigating conflicts, i.e. achieving progress on SDG 16.  Realizing this year’s World Water Week objective therefore rests on better early warning for conflicts as a necessary if insufficient precondition for attenuating conflict.

As demand grows inexorably and climate change alters hydrological cycles, increasing competition over water can in itself be a conflict risk. This session will discuss how early warning tools can contribute to better policy responses for preventing and mitigating water conflict risks. After an introductory keynote, it will feature short presentations of a number of existing tools, followed by a ‘shark tank’ format of cross-examination of these tools. This interactive format will see the tools probed by high-ranking policy-makers from the diplomacy, defence, development and disaster risk reduction communities while reserving two rotating chairs for members of the audience.

When: Thursday, 29 August, 2019, 09:00 - 10:30hrs, Room M4

Where: Tele2 Arena, Arenaslingan 14, Johanneshov, Sweden