Conflicts
Training programme on understanding and resolving water conflicts, SPPECOM, Kerala
Posted on 02 Feb, 2010 05:42 PMForum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts (Forum) in India, in collaboration with the Chalakudi Puzha Samrakshan Samiti and Kerala State Resource Centre of the Forum, is organizing a Training Programme on Understanding and Resolving Water Conflicts from 5 to 8 April 2010 in Kerala (the exact location in Kerala would be announced later).
Call for abstracts - 4th IMA conference on analyzing conflict transformation
Posted on 05 Jan, 2010 04:21 PMSt Anne’s College, Oxford, UK
28-30 June 2010
In a world that is increasingly riven by conflict, often involving emergent non-state factions in rapidly changing patterns of inter-relationship, the need for rigorous conflict analysis is more pressing than ever. However, to be robust and insightful, such analysis must be informed by the wide range of disciplines - including mathematics and decision sciences, diplomacy and international relations, peace and war studies, anthropology and psychology, military and political science, linguistics and communication studies - whose scholars presently engage with the topic of confrontation. This conference, the 4th in an established and successful series hosted by the IMA will, like its predecessors, provide a forum for sharing the latest thinking in these disparate fields and for building multidisciplinary links between conflict researchers.
The theme of the present conference is the process of conflict transformation. When conflict analysts focus upon specific episodes within what are usually protracted and complex networks of interaction, they may easily lose sight of relevant issues in the spatial, temporal or causal environment. Furthermore the processes by which confrontation may transform into collaboration, or co-operation may degenerate into conflict, are central both to conflict escalation and conflict resolution. The conference will therefore be concerned with the dynamics of conflict processes and will include wide-ranging interpretations and explorations of this theme.
Meeting on injustice to Dalits in relief and rehabilitation -- proceedings
Posted on 11 Nov, 2009 06:52 PM
News updates - 15th October, 2009
Posted on 14 Oct, 2009 02:23 PMPicture from https://www.thehindu.com : (https://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/14/images/2009101451490301.jpg) , drinking water being supplied by tanker in Bellary district
No fresh flood threat:
https://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/13/stories/2009101353490400.htm
Several articles cover the post-mortem of the floods, triggered by CWC statements that their warning to the government of AP was ignored
PIL filed alleging negligence on the part of AP government
Rosaiah reacts:
https://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/14/stories/2009101450460100.htm
https://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/13/stories/2009101359070300.htm
Some critical issues on groundwater in India - Centre for Water Policy
Posted on 04 Sep, 2009 09:12 AMThis document on the South Asia Network on Dams, Rivers and People site by the Centre for Water Policy highlights the critical issues related to groundwater in India and is divided into the following sections:
Pani panchayat in Orissa: The practice of participatory water management
Posted on 29 Aug, 2009 11:32 AMThis paper, published in the journal Development argues that new policy interventions such as Pani Panchayat in Orissa, India ignore the local socioeconomic contexts and fail to ensure co
The Mullaperiyar conflict : Meeting to understand issues and explore a common ground, 4 Aug 2009, New Delhi
Posted on 02 Aug, 2009 07:50 PMImage and Content Courtesy: Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India Guest Post by: K J Joy, Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India The Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India (Forum to be brief) is happy to invite you to the “The Mullaperiyar conflict: Meeting to understand issues and explore a common ground” to be held on 4th August 2009 between 4 to 8 pm at Constitutional Club, New Delhi. The Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India is a collaborative effort of many organisations and individuals in the country working on water and especially on water conflicts. The Forum’s work is guided by a Steering Committee and Advisory Committee consisting of some of the important names in the water sector in the country. The Forum began its work in 2004-05 and in the initial couple of years the main focus was to understand different types of conflicts in the country and took up extensive documentation of conflicts across the country. The cases have now been published as a book by Routledge, “Water Conflicts in India: A Million Revolts in the Making”. Presently the Forum is engaged more in activities that can help in resolving conflicts or making them more tractable through scientific studies and dialogue amongst the conflicting parties. The Forum has also taken the initiative to set up two groups of experts to work on two important issues related to water conflicts in the country, namely, 1) water allocations for livelihood needs and ecosystem needs; and 2) the legal-institutional framework for conflict resolution. The Forum aims to take up these issues for wider discussion and debate so that certain degree of social consensus can be built around these two critical issues. Some of the Forum partners are also engaged in active conflict resolution in their respective states. The Forum does believe that with scientific inputs and a spirit of cooperation and dialogue amongst the conflicting parties most of the conflicts around water can be resolved. It is in this spirit that the Forum has taken the initiative to organize this meeting on the Mullaperiyar conflict.
The inter-state water disputes act (1956)
Posted on 30 May, 2009 09:11 AMIf it appears to the Government of any State that a water dispute with the Government of another State has arisen or is likely to arise by reason of the fact that the interests of the State, or of any of the inhabitants thereof, in the waters of an inter-State river or river valley have been, or are likely to be, affected prejudicially it can request the Central Government under Section 3 of the Act to refer the water dispute to a Tribunal for adjudication.
Kashmiri water - Good enough for peace?
Posted on 29 May, 2009 11:17 AMThis article from Pugwash online highlights the ongoing conflict between India and Pakistan over the Kashmir issue, the growing water demand in both the regions, the risk of water serving as a valuable reso