Water Conflicts in India due to Development

1. Understanding Water Conflicts
K. J. Joy
Email: joykjjoy2@gmail.com
16 March 2017

2. Conflict
• The pursuit of (real or seemingly) incompatible goals by
different groups (violently and non-violently)

3. Conflict analysis
• Location and scale
• Profile: Bio-physical and social setting
• Actors/conflicting parties and their perceptions
• Historical overview and important milestones
• Efforts to resolve the conflict
• Present status

4. Galtung’s Triangle
Conflict is a dynamic process in which contradictions, attitudes
and behaviours interact

5. Types of causes
• Triggers
– An event or series of events that cause the conflict to become
visible or turn violent
• Proximate Causes
– A change in circumstances that increase the likelihood of conflict
• Root Causes/Systemic Causes
– Existing background conditions that are unjust or threatening --
economic disparity, exclusion from political power, etc.

6. Levels of conflict -- Scale

7. Conflict cycle

8. Co-existence of conflict and
cooperation: conflict-cooperation matrix
(Source: Adapted by Mirumachi (2015; 41) from Craig(1993)
The Transboundary Waters Interaction NexuS (TWINS) framework to
understand coexisting conflict and cooperation: Mirumachi

9. The conflict iceberg
(Source: Conflict
Analysis: A Practical
Tool for Adding a
Conflict Map to
Written Analyses
NWO CoCoon 2016;
prepared by
Lambrecht Wessels)

10. Mediator’s iceberg framework
Source: Lambrecht Wessels, Conflict analysis: A practical tool…,” NOW COCOON, CCMCC annual meeting 2016.

11. Mapping of common interests & needs

12. www.waterconflictforum.org

13. Water conflict map