<p>ABSTRACT</p><p>The aim of this study is to analyse if the UN today constructs the water issue as a security issue and to argue about in which way the organization in that case does so alternatively why it can be said that the UN doesn’t construct the water issue as a security issue.</p><p>In order to reach this purpose the following questions will be answered:</p><p>•Does the UN construct the water issue as a security issue today?</p><p>-If yes, in which way?</p><p>-If no, why can it be said that the organisation doesn’t?</p><p>The methods used are qualitative literature studies of policy documents on water from the UN. The focus is to analyze the ideas about water and to apply my theory on the concept of security, which is Barry Buzan’s framework on security, to these ideas.</p><p>The main results showed that the UN strongly constructs the water issue as an environmental security issue for environments and species and in relatively strong terms also constructs it as an environmental security issue for civilisations. In rare cases the organisation constructs it as a societal security issue, but the UN doesn’t construct the water issue as a military, political or economic security issue.</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA/oai:DiVA.org:vxu-1436 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Bergström, Hanna |
| Publisher | Växjö University, School of Social Sciences |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, text |
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