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  • Gidon Bromberg on Water and Environmental Peacebuilding

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    Friday Podcasts  //  Water Stories (Podcast Series)  //  February 1, 2019  //  By Evan Barnard

    640x640_10122939“The Jordan River has been the lifeblood of the Levant,” says Gidon Bromberg, the Israeli co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, in this week’s Water Stories podcast. The river’s importance offers a unique platform for multi-level conflict resolution and environmental conservation efforts in a region wracked by conflict.

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  • Gidon Bromberg, Nada Majdalani, and Munqeth Mehyar

    To Make Peace in the Middle East, Focus First on Water

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    February 13, 2018  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Gidon Bromberg, Nada Majdalani, and Munqeth Mehyar, appeared on Reuters.

    For the past 20 years, Israelis and Palestinians alike have approached peace negotiations with the flawed assumption that, in order to reach an agreement, all core issues must be solved simultaneously. As the conflict continues to claim victims on both sides, it’s important to point out that when President Trump’s Middle East envoy, Jason Greenblatt, was looking for an early success in the new administration’s peace efforts, he found it – in water.

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  • Building Stability in the Middle East: Defining a Transatlantic Agenda for Climate Resilience

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    From the Wilson Center  //  November 20, 2017  //  By Julianne Liebenguth
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    Climate change can undermine stability in the Middle East and North Africa, where both the United States and Europe have critical foreign policy and security interests. The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region “is impacted by climate and resource scarcity risks now, in the medium, and in the long term,” said Nick Mabey, director and chief executive of the environmental think tank E3G, during a recent Wilson Center event on building climate resilience in MENA countries. “It’s a region that is highly vulnerable to climate change,” said Mabey, and “also incredibly vulnerable to global systems.” 

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  • Lessons From International Water Sharing Agreements for Dealing With Climate Change

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    Guest Contributor  //  June 19, 2017  //  By Shlomi Dinar & Ariel Dinar
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    Scientists agree that many countries in tropical, subtropical, and arid regions should expect changes to water availability and supply from climate change. The U.S. intelligence community has likewise warned of water-driven challenges not only for countries directly affected by water changes, but indirectly to various U.S. national security interests. Perhaps not surprisingly then, the popular literature has been quite clear about prophesizing wars over water.

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  • “You Are Asking About Pollution?”: One Journalist’s Perspective on the Mid East’s Environmental Crisis

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    Guest Contributor  //  November 14, 2016  //  By Peter Schwartzstein
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    It was some point in May last year, shortly after ISIS surged into the city of Ramadi, and I was working on a story about Iraq’s fast-disappearing Mesopotamian Marshes. Keen to fact-check a few statistics with the Ministry of Water Resources and to hear the government line on the wetlands’ struggles, I dialed its Baghdad offices. After being passed from official to official like a hot potato, a young employee, Hussein, finally gave it to me straight. “No, no, we don’t have this sort of information,” he said, clearly impatient to get off the phone. “There are much more important things in Iraq right now.”

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  • UN Special Rapporteur Calls for Action on Toxic Remnants of War to Protect Children

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 23, 2016  //  By Wim Zwijnenburg
    Syria

    This month, Baskut Tuncak, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights and toxics, presented the findings of his report on the effects of hazardous substances on the lives of children around the world to the 33rd session of the Human Rights Council. His conclusions were bold and brave for their implications on conflict: States should take responsibility for cleaning up the toxic remnants of war and providing medical aid to affected communities and individuals.

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  • Major Water Disputes Are Often Beyond War and Peace

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 19, 2016  //  By Filippo Menga & The London Water Research Group
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    Early this June, the Israeli government cut off drinking water to people living in the Salfit region of the West Bank and three villages east of Nablus. The consequences have been dire. Thousands of Palestinians have been left with no running water in their homes, and factories have been forced to shutter. The power imbalance that leaves Palestinians so vulnerable to Israeli turns of the valve plays out every year, made possible by Israel’s occupation of the water-rich Golan Heights in 1967. What is perhaps most surprising is that the situation persists.

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  • Rowand Jacobsen, Ensia

    Can New Water Tech Help Reduce Conflict in Middle East?

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    August 9, 2016  //  By Wilson Center Staff
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    The original version of this article, by Rowand Jacobsen, appeared on Ensia.

    Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk through it standing upright, were it not full of Mediterranean seawater pumped from an intake a mile offshore.

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