UNDERSTANDING WATER SCARCITY AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS IN AFRICA: ADDRESSING GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTS
This article examines the intricate relationship between water scarcity and conflict dynamics in Africa, where crucial environmental pressures intersect with escalating sociopolitical conflicts. Water shortage, resulting from climate change and population growth, leads to increased competition for l...
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| description | This article examines the intricate relationship between water scarcity and conflict dynamics in Africa, where crucial environmental pressures intersect with escalating sociopolitical conflicts. Water shortage, resulting from climate change and population growth, leads to increased competition for limited resources and a more significant possibility for violence. Transboundary conflicts over shared water bodies, such as the Nile Basin, have often enclosed this critical confluence of contending national interests overlaid with concerns around regional stability. Securitization theory acts as a lens conceptual framework that explains how water insecurity, under a nationalizing frame, became a national security issue with prior incipient policy trends and deepening socioeconomic disparities. The document discusses the implication of water-related challenges for human security, especially in vulnerable communities that depend on agriculture and natural resources, and helps to develop informed policies that foster peace, stability, and equitable development underpinned by water scarcity in Africa through synthesizing theoretical insights and empirical findings. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2e3d28f21a1d4d3a8a71fb0835a469f92025-08-20T02:14:27ZengRzeszow University of TechnologyHumanities and Social Sciences2300-53272300-99182025-03-013219510810.7862/rz.2025.hss.072005UNDERSTANDING WATER SCARCITY AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS IN AFRICA: ADDRESSING GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTSAli MADOUNI0University of BiskraThis article examines the intricate relationship between water scarcity and conflict dynamics in Africa, where crucial environmental pressures intersect with escalating sociopolitical conflicts. Water shortage, resulting from climate change and population growth, leads to increased competition for limited resources and a more significant possibility for violence. Transboundary conflicts over shared water bodies, such as the Nile Basin, have often enclosed this critical confluence of contending national interests overlaid with concerns around regional stability. Securitization theory acts as a lens conceptual framework that explains how water insecurity, under a nationalizing frame, became a national security issue with prior incipient policy trends and deepening socioeconomic disparities. The document discusses the implication of water-related challenges for human security, especially in vulnerable communities that depend on agriculture and natural resources, and helps to develop informed policies that foster peace, stability, and equitable development underpinned by water scarcity in Africa through synthesizing theoretical insights and empirical findings.https://journals.prz.edu.pl/hss/article/view/2005water scarcityconflict dynamicshuman securitysecuritization theorydevelopmental impacts |
| spellingShingle | Ali MADOUNI UNDERSTANDING WATER SCARCITY AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS IN AFRICA: ADDRESSING GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTS Humanities and Social Sciences water scarcity conflict dynamics human security securitization theory developmental impacts |
| title | UNDERSTANDING WATER SCARCITY AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS IN AFRICA: ADDRESSING GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTS |
| title_full | UNDERSTANDING WATER SCARCITY AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS IN AFRICA: ADDRESSING GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTS |
| title_fullStr | UNDERSTANDING WATER SCARCITY AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS IN AFRICA: ADDRESSING GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTS |
| title_full_unstemmed | UNDERSTANDING WATER SCARCITY AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS IN AFRICA: ADDRESSING GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTS |
| title_short | UNDERSTANDING WATER SCARCITY AND CONFLICT DYNAMICS IN AFRICA: ADDRESSING GEOPOLITICAL TENSIONS, HUMAN SECURITY, AND DEVELOPMENTAL IMPACTS |
| title_sort | understanding water scarcity and conflict dynamics in africa addressing geopolitical tensions human security and developmental impacts |
| topic | water scarcity conflict dynamics human security securitization theory developmental impacts |
| url | https://journals.prz.edu.pl/hss/article/view/2005 |
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