GWP Toolbox - C5 Conflict Resolution. Managing disputes, ensuring sharing of water

Procedures for consensus building and conflict management are central to successful IWRM. Conflicts can occur for many reasons. Areas for potential conflict include: interdependence of people and responsibilities; jurisdictional ambiguities; functional overlap; competition for scarce resource; differences in organisational status and influence; incompatible objectives and methods; differences in behavioural style; differences in information; distortions in communications; unmet expectations; unmet needs or interests; unequal power or authority; misperceptions, and others.