Seminar: Dangerous waters: Escalating water conflict in the Indus River Basin

May 7, 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Honolulu Campus, 1601 East-West Road, John A. Burns Hall, Room 3121/3125 (3rd floor)

Recently Pakistan has become one of the least water secure nations in the world and faces an impending water crisis. Pakistan芒鈧劉s severe water shortages highlight its dependence on the Indus River Basin and bring to the forefront a conflict with India over control of the basin. India芒鈧劉s control over key headwaters in the Indus Basin negatively and disproportionately affects Pakistan and risks the possibility of a war over water resources. This presentation will provide a game theoretic insight into the Indus River Basin conflict and consider possible institutional solutions that will benefit both countries.

First Lieutenant Andrew Beckmann is a Graduate Degree Fellow at the East-West Center and a master芒鈧劉s student in the University of Hawai'i芒鈧劉s Economics Department. He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 2016 with a B.Sc. in economics and was commissioned into the United States Army as an infantry officer. He is originally from Yarmouth, Maine.


Ticket Information
Free, open to the public

Event Sponsor
East-West Center, Mānoa Campus

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Laurel Pikcunas, (808) 944-7444, pikcunal@eastwestcenter.org,

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