Resolution of international water disputes : papers emanating from the Sixth PCA International Law Seminar, November 8, 2002 / edited by The International Bureau for the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction / Tjaco T. van den Hout -- UNESCO Hydrological Programme: international potential conflict to co-operation potential -- Keynote address / Sir Robert Jennings -- Resolution of international water disputes: challenges for the 21st Century / Surya P. Subedi -- Water disputes defined: characteristics and trends for resolving them / Stephen C. McCaffrey -- The role of diplomatic means of solving water disputes: a special emphasis on institutional mechanisms / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes -- Universal and regional approaches to resolving international water disputes: what lessons leaned from state practice? / Patricia Wouters -- Good offices and mediation and international water disputes / Salman M.A. Salman -- The role of third parties in promoting collective action among riparians / Eyal Benvenisti -- Judicial means for settling water disputes / Lucius Caflisch -- The judgment of the International Court of Justice in the Case Concerning the Gabcǐkovo-Nagymaros Project (Hungary/Slovakia) / Stephen M. Schwebel -- Emerging trends in the role of non-state actors in international water disputes / Atilla Tanzi and Ceare Pitea -- Non-state actors and international water disputes: a search for the nexus between the local and the global / Ellen Hey -- Water in times of armed conflict / Mara Tignino -- Resolution of water disputes: lessons learned from the Middle East / Edda Kristjańsdot́tir -- Prospects for the future of international water law: the view projected by the epistemic community / Paulo Canelas de Castro -- Concluding remarks / Philippe dands -- Appendix United Nations Convention on the Law of Non-navigational Uses of International Watercourses.