Analysis for Water Conflict Transformation
Publisher: Water International
Author(s): Mark Zeitoun, Naho Miramuchi, Jeroen Warner, Matthew Kirkegaard, and Ana Cascao
Date: 2019
Topics: Cooperation, Renewable Resources
This article proposes and fleshes out an analytical method designed to support efforts to transform inequitable and unsustainable transboundary water arrangements. Such ‘transformative analysis’ leverages socio-ecological thinking to critically evaluate the processes that have established and maintain an arrangement, including hydro-diplomacy itself. Transformative analysis facilitates the interpretation of strategies to deflect transformation, identification of destructive forms of cooperation, and strategic classification of opportunities for transformation. The assertions are premised on an understanding of the particularities of water conflict, and followed by a discussion of ways researchers may overcome the challenges inherent in the method.