Essays about: "Jon Roozenbeek"

Found 1 essay containing the words Jon Roozenbeek.

  1. 1. A New Stalemate : The Influence of South Sudan's Independence on The Nile Basin's Water Politics

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Uppsala centrum för hållbar utveckling, CSD Uppsala

    Author : Jon Roozenbeek; [2014]
    Keywords : South Sudan; Nile; Water Politics; Peace and Conflict; Sustainable Development;

    Abstract : : This study assesses how South Sudan’s 2011 vote for independence has influenced the Nile Basin’s debate over water rights. Although it initially seemed that South Sudan was aligning itself with the upstream riparian states such as Ethiopia and Uganda, effectively leaving Egypt and Sudan as the only opponents to a Cooperative Framework Agreement and redefining so-called ‘historic water rights’, the escalation of the South Sudanese internal conflict between President Salva Kiir and ex-Vice-President Riek Machar changed this situation entirely. READ MORE