POSTPONED - Water Scarcity and the Threat of Water War in South Asia

10:00, 7 Jul 2008
RUSI, Whitehall, London, SW1A 2ET

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About the event:

POSTPONED

Nowhere else on earth has the prospect of water wars been more often or more earnestly asserted than in South Asia, where two of the world’s greatest river systems – the Indus and the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) – crisscross the international boundaries of several of the world’s largest and most densely-populated countries, including India, China, Pakistan,  Bangladesh and Nepal.

While the dominant powers in these catchment areas judge water security to be a matter of supreme national importance, their neighbours complain of reticence towards more equitable approaches to water sharing. This conference will aim to explore the potential for inter-state conflict over water resources in South Asia and to provide recommendations for confidence building measures to ensure regional water security.

This is a joint Royal United Services Institute (RUSI) and Public Policy Research Organisation (PPRO) event.

Confirmed Speakers:

• Professor Robert G. Wirsing, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies.
• Dr Srikanth Kondapalli, Associate Professor Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
• Dr Nasrullah Mirza, Assistant Professor of Defence and Strategic Studies at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.
• Dr Shastra Dutta Pant, Institute for Rural Development, Nepal.
• M.B.I. Munshi, Bangladesh writer and commentator.
  

Event manager: Sabrina Downey