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  • 15 Years of Environmental Peacemaking: Overcoming Challenges and Identifying Opportunities for Cooperation

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    From the Wilson Center  //  March 13, 2017  //  By Sreya Panuganti
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    As the 1990s drew to a close, there was a sense that much of the momentum gained at the first Earth Summit on sustainable development, a positive, affirming environmental narrative, was waning.

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  • In Kosovo, Post-War Water Faults Show Challenge of Balancing Political With Technical

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    Guest Contributor  //  September 1, 2016  //  By Florian Krampe
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    Rivers have shaped the Western Balkan Peninsula’s characteristic landscape and played an important role in its history. Following the violence of the Yugoslav secession wars in the 1990s and the creation of six new nations, the number of transboundary river basins doubled from 6 to 13. In Kosovo, where independence remains a question, the water sector is a microcosm of tensions between ethnic Serbs and Albanians. The challenge of water resource management exists not only over the province’s contested national boundaries with Serbia, but between divided ethnic groups within the territory.

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  • Fire and Oil: The Collateral Environmental Damage of Airstrikes on ISIS Oil Facilities

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    Guest Contributor  //  January 13, 2016  //  By Wim Zwijnenburg & Annica Waleij

    As the United States, Russia, and others step up attacks on the self-proclaimed Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS), there is concern over their direct and long-term environmental and public health impacts. Many air strikes have targeted lucrative oil installations under the control of ISIS, and these could have severe detrimental effects for Syria’s future, both environmentally and socio-economically. Questions around the effectiveness of these strikes, both from a military and political perspective, seem to be missing in the wider debate.

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