The multi-track water diplomacy framework

Reports and papers|Jan 1, 2016

Shared waters cooperation Water diplomacy and peace

The multi-track water diplomacy framework helps identify factors that enable or constrain cooperation over shared waters. This report presents an analytical tool combining legal and political economy perspectives to examine cooperation across different actors and decision-making levels, including connections between water, food, energy and transport.

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Recognizing importance of cooperation for improved management of water resources, the ‘Water Diplomacy (WADI): Making Water Cooperation Work’ project aims to analyze the key determinants contributing to water cooperation. Multi-Track Water Diplomacy Framework was developed as an analytical tool to identify key factors that can affect past, current and future potential water cooperation. The framework uniquely allows analysis of water cooperation at multiple tracks, also allowing analysis of water cooperation vis-à-vis water-food-energy-transport nexus.

This report was originally published by The Hague Institute for Global Justice.