This workshop is part of a joint Norwegian-Indian activity project on water-related security challenges on the Indian subcontinent (INDSEC). INDSEC seeks to inspire high-quality academic research on various aspects of water security by bringing together experts with complementary skills and area competence on perhaps the world’s most challenging region in this context: South Asia. A follow-up workshop is scheduled for Delhi in October. INDSEC is sponsored by the Research Council of Norway’s INDNOR program.
The workshop will take place in Operasjonssentralen in the Red Cross building adjacent to PRIO. This map shows you how to find PRIO
WORKSHOP PROGRAM (Printer friendly version)
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Monday 13 June
Arrival in Oslo; accommodation at Radisson Blu Plaza (http://www.radissonblu.no/plazahotell-oslo)
Tuesday 14 June
Venue: Operasjonssentralen, Red Cross building adjacent to PRIO
09:00 Welcome
Presentation of relevant research projects at PRIO:
· Halvard Buhaug: NORKLIMA project
· Åshild Kolås: IDSA-PRIO collaboration
· Kristian Hoelscher: BIPSS-PRIO collaboration
Introductory talk by Ambassador I. P. Khosla on “Hydrodiplomacy in South Asia”
10:00 Session I
Chair: Halvard Buhaug
Tridivesh Maini:
“From conflict to cooperation: Indo-Pak water issues”
Uttam Sinha:
“Water hegemony, examining China's hydro-behaviour”
Nils Petter Gleditsch:
“International borders, rivers and conflict revisited”
12:00 Lunch
13:00 Session II
Chair: Uttam Sinha
Sreeradha Datta:
“Indo-Bangladesh water sharing: dispelling fears and building trust”
Tobias Siegfried:
“Over-extraction in the shallow and the deep: The sustainability and reliability of India's groundwater irrigation”
16:00 End
18:30 Dinner
Dinner Restaurant (www.dinner.no)
Wednesday 15 June
Venue: Operasjonssentralen, Red Cross building adjacent to PRIO
09:00 Session III
Chair: Kapil Narula
Rohan D’Souza:
“From conflict to securitization: The making of another hydraulic paradigm in India”
Gerdis Wischnath & Halvard Buhaug:
“Climate wars redux? On climate variability and armed conflict in Asia"
Rune Slettebak:
“Does natural disasters trigger communal violence in India? A natural experiment”
11:40 **** Wrap-up
Wrap-up; discussion of future activities. This ends the formal workshop program.
12:00 **** Lunch
14:00 - 15:30 Afternoon dedicated to Asia seminar at PRIO with presentation by Maini and Khosla as discussant
Dinner TBC
Thursday 16 June
Departure
WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
Åshild Kolås
Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO
Eivind Berg Weibust
Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO
Gerdis Wischnath
Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO
Halvard Buhaug
Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO
I.P. Khosla
Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, IDSA
Jason Miklian
Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO
Kristian Hoelscher
Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO
Nils Petter Gleditsch
Peace Research Institute Oslo, PRIO
Rohan D’Souza
Jawaharlal Nehru University
Rune Slettebak
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, NTNU
Sreeradha Datta
Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, IDSA
Tobias Siegfried
ETH Zurich
Tridivesh Maini
Observer Research Foundation
Uttam Sinha
Institute for Defense Studies and Analyses, IDSA
