Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation

July 17, 2017

July 2017
Serious gaming has proved successful in enhancing skills in negotiations in response to water conflict. Research completed at OSU by  Shelby Hockaday, Todd Jarvis and Fatima Taha looks at if negotiations differed between conflicts and management of surface water and groundwater. It also explores the relationship between a player’s background and social behaviors that may have shaped the outcomes of their gaming experience.
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July 17, 2017
New analysis by researchers from OSU, Spain and Chile has been published in the journal Global Environmental Change.  Findings cite that the more than 1,400 new dams or water diversion projects are planned or already under construction have the potential to increase water conflict between some countries.
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July 17, 2017
Circle of Blue conducted a geopolitical analysis using Aqueduct Water Risk Altas and the Global Conflict Risk Index.  It identifies 10 places where water could compound existing social stressors and contribute to a humanitarian crisis.
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June 16, 2017
BBC Future interviews OSU's Professor of Geography Dr. Aaron Wolf about the future of water supplies and hydro-politics.  He cites three main issues when it comes to water in the 21st Century: water scarcity, political implications of scarcity, and transboundary waters. 
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June 2017
OSU PhD student and TFDD Manager, Melissa McCracken, recently published a Technical Background Paper with the Global Water Partnership that evaluates three methods for measuring transboundary water cooperation including the Sustainable Development Goal 6.5.2.
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April 27, 2017
Todd Jarvis, director of the federally designated Institute for Water and Watersheds at Oregon State University, discusses groundwater problems near Alpine, Oregon. Due to the geology of the region, water level decline with pumping.
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January 13, 2017
What happens when a border melts? An Italian Project is mapping how climate change will impact and shift the location of the country's borders.  Could movable borders be the solution?
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January 5, 2017
OSU Master's Student Dacotah Splichalova presents a platform for discussion on efforts in the Sixaola Basin to share waters and enhance water security.  This article and mini-movie is based on her Master's Thesis research in the basin.
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December 11, 2016
This blog post presents a summary from several sessions at the Budapest Water Summit. It quotes OSU's Lynette de Silva about the role that water dispute resolution and conflict management can provide to address the potential for water conflicts.
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