Palestine-Israel

Community Based Problem Solving on Water Issues: Cross-Border "Priority Initiatives" of the Good Water Neighbors Project

2016 | EcoPeace Middle East

Transboundary water cooperation can correlate with regional stability and peace. Engaging cross border communities and utilizing their mutual dependence on shared water resources as a…

Governance Structures for Transboundary Water Management in the Jordan Basin

2015 | EcoPeace Middle East and Stockholm International Water Institute
Elizabeth Yaari, Marian Neal, and Zaki Shubber

While recent trends towards increasing transboundary water cooperation are demonstrated by a growing number of River Basin Organisations (RBOs) globally, experts point to the variant…

Regional Ecological Challenges for Peace in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia Pacific

2016 | Springer
Úrsula Oswald Spring, Hans Günter Brauch, S. E. Serrano Oswald, and Juliet Bennett

This book presents peer-reviewed texts from the International Peace Research Association’s Ecology and Peace Commission: M.I. Abazie-Humphrey (Nigeria) reviews “Nigeria’s Home-Grown DDR Programme”; C. Christian…

Identifying Synergies and Tradeoffs in the Sustainability Security Nexus: The Case of Israeli-Palestinian Wastewater Treatment Regime

2015 | Hydrological Sciences Journal
Itay Fischhendler

The literature on environmental security often assumes complementarity between promoting sustainability and broader security goals. As sustainability and security are viewed to be positively correlated…

Gidon Bromberg on Environmental Peacebuilding in the Lower Jordan Valley [Audio]

2014 | Environmental Change and Security Program and Maternal Health Initiative
Gidon Bromberg

“When you turn on the tap in any community in Israel, water will always flow. That’s not the case in Palestine, and it’s not always…

The Climate-Conflict Nexus: Pathways, Regional Links, and Case Studies

2016 | Springer
Tobias Ide, P. Michael Link, Jürgen Scheffran, and Janpeter Schilling

The role of climate change as a potential cause of violent conflict has been debated in the scholarly and policy communities for several years. We…

Water Resources, Cooperation and Power Asymmetries in the Water Management of the Lower Jordan Valley: The Situation Today and the Path that Has Led There

2016 | Springer
Christine Bismuth

This chapter aims at providing an overview of the uses and the state of the water resources in the Lower Jordan Basin. The years 2007/2008…

Research in Two Case Studies: Irrigation and Land Use in the Fergana Valley and Water Management in the Lower Jordan Valley

2016 | Springer
Christine Bismuth, Sebastian Hoechstetter, and Oliver Bens

This chapter aims to present an overview of the two case studies “Irrigation and land use in the Fergana Valley” and “Water management in the…

Mitigating Transboundary Wastewater Conflicts: Building Partnerships and Trust through Collaborative Dialogue

2016 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Clive Lipchin, Jaclin Best, Jacob Cutler, and Shira Kronich

The effects of the seemingly intractable conflict between Israel and Palestine extend well beyond the political sphere into daily life. Wrangling over the use and…

Depoliticizing Water Conflict: Functional Peacebuilding in the Red Sea–Dead Sea Water Conveyance Project

2016 | Hydrological Sciences Journal
Karin Aggestam and Anna Sundell

This article analyses the nexus of technocracy–peacebuilding and its implications on water conflicts and hydropolitics. It is a conceptual exploration which advances an interdisciplinary approach…

Cooperation over Water Resources as a Tool for Desecuritisation: The Israeli – Palestinian Environmental NGOs as Desecuritising Actor

2009 | European Journal of Economic and Political Studies
Bezen Balamir Coskun

This article discusses the role of the Israeli and Palestinian environmental NGOs as desecuritising actors who have attempted to initiate a desecuritisation process. In this…

The Politics of Unilateral Environmentalism: Cooperation and Conflict over Water Management along the Israeli-Palestinian Border

2011 | Global Environmental Politics
Itay Fischhendler, Shlomi Dinar, and David Katz

The establishment of international environmental institutions is often predicated on the assumption that cooperation is politically feasible and that regime formation is viable. However, the…

Climate Change and Security in the Israeli–Palestinian Context

2012 | Journal of Peace Research
Eran Feitelson, Abdelrahman Tamimi, and Gad Rosenthal

The Middle East is among the least stable and most fragile regions. It is not surprising, therefore, that concerns have been raised regarding the potential…

Space, Discourse and Environmental Peacebuilding

2016 | Third World Quarterly
Tobias Ide

The concept of environmental peacebuilding is becoming increasingly prominent among peacebuilding scholars and practitioners. This study provides a brief overview about the various discussions contributing…

Climate Change and Violent Conflict: A critical literature review

2010 | Oxfam America
Ellen Messer

A burgeoning literature explores climate change as a risk multiplier that will lead to an escalation in armed conflicts. This literature can be referred to…

Middle Eastern and North African Hydropolitics: From Eddies of Indecision to Emerging International Law

2006 | Georgetown International Environmental Law Review
Elizabeth Burleson

The groundwater shared by Israelis and Palestinians is not sufficiently covered by international water law, leaving open the issue of reasonable and equitable water use…

Are the Conflicts between Israel and Her Neighbors over the Waters of the Jordan River Basin an Obstacle to Peace? Israel-Syria as a Case Study

2000 | Water, Air, and Soil Pollution
H. I. Shuval

Are the conflicts over water resources between Syria, Lebanon and Israel who share the transboundary waters of the Jordan River Basin a major obstacle to…

Groundwater Resources and International Law in the Middle East Peace Process

2003 | Water International
Yoram Eckstein and Gabriel E. Eckstein

Next to issues of land, water resources are the major bone of contention in the peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs. The objective…

Palestine Marks 'Land Day' amid Fresh Israeli Land Grabs [Infographic]

2016 | Anadolu Agency
Anees Bargouthi

According to Palestinean Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel has seized 85 percent of historical Palestine since Jewish state was established in 1948.

Water Conflict or Water Cooperation? A Discursive Understanding of Water Conflict and Cooperation in Israel and Palestine

2014 | Tobias Ide and Christiane Fröhlich
University of Hamburg, Institute for Peace Research and Security Politics Hamburg (IFSH)

The water conflict between Israel and Palestine is severe, although not violent, and deeply embedded into the confrontative structures of the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict. At…

Environmental Work and Peace Work: The Palestinian-Israeli Case

2015 | Peace and Conflict Studies
Julia Chaitin, Fida Obeidi, Sami Adwan, and Dan Bar-On

This paper, based on a larger study that was carried out by a joint Palestinian – Israeli research team before and during the Al Aqsa…

Sharing the Land of Canaan: The Conflict and Sustainable Development (Chapter 10)

2004 | Pluto Press (London & Sterling, Virginia)
Mazin Qumsiyeh

The Zionist program has always been built around the concept of "reclaiming" the ancestral Jewish homeland by building extra-state institutions" (World Zionist Organization, Jewish Agency…

Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment of the Palestinian–Israeli Water Situation

2014 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Marwan Haddad

This paper examines and discusses the prolonged Palestinian–Israeli water conflict, taking into consideration recent formal and informal water negotiations and emphasising the future of water-based…

Climate Insecurity in (Post)Conflict Areas: The Biopolitics of United Nations Vulnerability Assessments

2014 | Geopolitics
Michael Manson

Within the United Nations, the United Nations Development Programme, United Nations Environment Programme and Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs have all highlighted climate…

Natural Resource Transformation: Incorporating Identity

2006 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Maia Carter Hallward

Natural resource issues provide a useful context for analysing and intervening in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because environmental destruction harms both Israelis and Palestinians given their…

Evaluation of Environmental Peacemaking Intervention Strategies in Jordan-Palestine-Israel

2015 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Marina Djernaes, Teis Jorgensen, and Elizabeth Koch-Ya'ari

Working in an ever-changing political context presents a set of unique challenges to sustainable peacemaking, and requires the continuous adaptation of approaches. This briefing shares…

Peace and Pollution: An Examination of Palestinian—Israeli Trans-Boundary Hazardous Waste Management 20 Years after the Oslo Peace Accords

2013 | Journal of Peacebuilding & Development
Ilan Alleson , Jamie Levin , Shmuel Brenner, and Mohammad Said Al Hmaidi

As part of the Oslo Accords, Israel and the Palestinian Authority agreed to jointly manage issues of environmental concern according to internationally recognised standards. The…

Emerging Security Threats in the Middle East: The Impact of Climate Change and Globalization

2016 | Rowman & Littlefield
Ashok Swain and Anders S. Jägerskog

The Middle East, particularly its Mashriq region (the region bounded by Iran in the east, Turkey in the north, the Mediterranean in the West, Saudi…

Socio-environmental Cooperation and Conflict? A Discursive Understanding and its Application to the Case of Israel and Palestine

2015 | Earth System Dynamics
Tobias Ide and Christiane Fröhlich

The existing literature faces difficulties when accounting for the simultaneity of socio-environmental conflict and cooperation. We suggest that this puzzle can be solved by more…

A Water Energy Nexus across the Jordan for Stability and Climate Change Mitigation

2015 | Tel Aviv University
Gideon Bromberg

Gideon Bromberg, CEO of EcoPeace, dicusses the Jordan River Basin's water-energy nexus and its role in stability and climate change mitigation at the 2nd German-Israeli Climate…