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The Compass: Climate Wars: Climate Wars: Water conflicts

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Climate Wars: Water conflicts

14/10/2020 GMT

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How drought is fuelling conflict in India and Pakistan

How drought is fuelling conflict in India and Pakistan.

India and Pakistan are on the front line of climate change and are two of the most water-stressed countries in the world. Drought has already caused violent clashes, deadly protests and a spate of farmer suicides. Now tensions between the two nations have been ratcheted up by an acrimonious dispute over a proposed dam on the River Indus. 

Will Robson looks at how these conflicts over mankind’s most precious resource threaten the stability of the whole region. He starts at the local and interprovincial level, where the absence of formal dispute resolution mechanisms has led to an escalating threat of violence. He will also explore the geopolitical tensions surrounding the Indus River that runs from China through India and Pakistan, and at how climate change is threatening to derail historical treaties between these nuclear armed states.

The Compass: Climate Wars

Examining the links between climate change and global conflicts.

In a five part series for the Compass, Major Will Robson investigates how climate change is fuelling conflict across the globe – from guerrilla raids on farmer-herders in Africa to a chilling new Cold War in the Arctic. 
He’ll be speaking to both climate and conflict experts to unravel the complicated threads that connect climatic changes, violence, war and global insecurity.  
 
Will Robson has served worldwide, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today, he is a travel writer and journalist who has seen first hand the deadly effects of warfare, civil unrest and climate change.

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