Project "A drama of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam negotiations"

Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (photography : Habte Zewge, 2022)

The project "A drama of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) negotiations" is led at the University of Geneva by the Geneva Water Hub and the UNESCO Chair on Hydropolitics, in collaboration with OuestWare and Tommaso Venturini.

The objective is to shed a different light on a well-studied hotspot for hydropolitical tensions, the Nile River. The project develops around the building of controversy mapping (Latour 2005, Venturini & Munk 2021), a tool that contributes to unpacking the complexity of public disputes.

The website invites users to build their own analysis, and therefore provides both the raw data (letters provided by parties, filters allowing to explore different causal links) and the qualitative research derived from it.