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Revising water weaponization: When the water taboo gets broken?
Pohnerová, Eliška ; Ludvík, Jan (advisor) ; Kučera, Tomáš (referee)
Pohnerová, Eliška; 2022 Diploma Thesis: Revising Water Weaponization: When the Water Taboo Gets Broken? Abstract The Master's Thesis named "Revising Water Weaponization: When the Water Taboo Gets Broken?" focuses on cases of water weaponization (WW) defined as breaches of normative prohibitions to misuse water either as a weapon or casualty. The topic aims to explain why we are witnessing WW by states despite the fact that it is forbidden, and sometimes even rejected with the words "water taboo". The Explanatory Sequential Method is used to combine both quantitative and qualitative research that build on further modified Pacific Institute dataset. The Latent Inductive Thematic Analysis is consequently applied to allow the researcher to come up with labels and themes generalizing the revised data into conclusive groups. The result is five contexts when states opt for WW and four groups of reasons why states opt for WW. As Water Taboo designation is by such research refuted, the thesis prefers a simpler one: Water Weaponization normative prohibition. Apart from the taboo appliance, the thesis just as well focuses on partial questions that come up from the quantitative part. These are Middle East WW primacy, Yemen WW casualty phenomenon, the question of WW unintentionality, and others. The qualitative part...

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