Develop an understanding of any change over time

Example: At the beginning of the time period a majority of conflicts involved agriculture, but by the end of the time period, urban conflicts over water took on greater significance.

Assess the conflicts to find two specific examples that best illustrate/explain the time period; then briefly describe the examples and explain how/why they are representative examples.(It will require additional
research for you to understand and describe these conflicts.) The reason that I chose these two examples is

1995

Ecuador, Peru

Military tool; Political tool

Yes

Armed skirmishes arise in part because of disagreement over the control of the headwaters of Cenepa River. Wolf argues that this is primarily a border dispute simply coinciding with the location of a water resource. Yemen sends 700 soldiers to quell fighting that claimed six lives and injured 60 others in clashes that erupted between two villages fighting over a local spring near Taiz. The village of Al-Marzuh believed it was entitled to exclusive rights from a spring because it was located on their land; the neighboring village of Quradah believed their rights to the water were affirmed in a 50-year-old court verdict. The dispute erupted in violence. President Ali Abdullah Saleh intervened by summoning the sheikhs of the two villages to the capital, and sorted out the problem by dividing the water into halves.

1999

Yemen

Development dispute

Yes