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“Playing the Game”, Identity and Perception-of-the-Other in Water Cooperation in the Jordan River Basin

2015 | Hydrological Sciences Journal
Josepha Ivanka Wessels

The concept of Integrated Water Resource Management (IWRM) has enjoyed immense popularity and thus has been the preferred approach for river basin management. IWRM generally…

Desecuritisation of Water and the Technocratic Turn in Peacebuilding

2015 | International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics
Karin Aggestam

This article addresses the research gap of water desecuritisation and advances an interdisciplinary approach within the issue area of peacebuilding. It draws upon three strands…

Lessons Learned on Environmental Diplomacy

2010 | Wilson International Center for Scholars
David Jensen and Dennis Hamro-Drotz

Since 1999, UNEP's Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch (PCDMB) has worked to assess the environmental impacts of conflicts and disasters and address the subsequent risks…

Watershed: The Role of Fresh Water in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

1995 | International Development Research Centre
Stephen Longeren and David Brooks

Watershed describes the water crisis faced by Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories today — a crisis that will have much to do with the…

Hydropolitics along the Jordan River: Scarce Water and its Impact on the Arab-Israeli Conflict

1995 | United Nations University Press
Aaron T. Wolf

The underlying premise in this study is that the inextricable link between water and politics in the Jordan River watershed can be harnessed to induce…

Water, Power and Politics in the Middle East: The Other Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2003 | I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd
Jan Selby

This original analysis of the Middle East water problems highlights questions and issues which have so far only received minimal attention. The author develops a…

Regional NGO Master Plan for Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley

2015 | EcoPeace Middle East, Global Nature Fund, and Stockholm International Water Institute

The overall objective of this master plan is to promote peace, prosperity and security in the Jordan Valley and the adjacent regions. All three governments,…

International Conference on Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley Conference Proceedings

2014 | EcoPeace
EcoPeace, WEDO, SIWI, Global Nature Fund

The SIWI / EcoPeace / GNF November 10-12, 2014 "International Conference on Sustainable Development in the Jordan Valley" brought together over one hundred and fifty government officials…

Transboundary Water Interaction I: Reconsidering Conflict and Cooperation

2008 | Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Mark Zeitoun, Naho Mirumachi

Transboundary water interaction is shown to be an inherently political process determined by the broader political context.The article examines the evidence suggesting that uncritical acceptance…

Hydro-Peace in the Middle East: Why No Water Wars? A Case Study of the Jordan River Basin

2002 | J. A. Allan
J. A. Allan

"The Middle East is very poorly endowed with freshwater: the region ran out of water resources to meet its strategic needs—for domestic and industrial use…

Land Rights and Peacebuilding: Challenges and Responses for the International Community

2010 | International Journal of Peace Studies
Jon Unruh

Rectifying land rights in war-torn settings are among the most daunting challenges of peacebuilding. War-torn land tenure situations are unique settings in their combination of…

Regional Cooperation on Environment, Economy and Natural resource Management: How Can It Contribute to Peacebuilding? Synthesis Report

2009 | IFP Regional Cooperation on Environment, Economy and Natural Resource Management Cluster
Moira Feil, Diana Klein, and Meike Westerkamp

The Initiative for Peacebuilding (IfP) Regional Cooperation on Environment, Economy and Natural Resource Management Cluster has been looking at the role regional cooperation initiatives in…

Water and Diplomacy in the Jordan River Basin

2009 | Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs III: 2
Eliahu Rosenthal and Robbie Sabel

In the Middle East region, only Lebanon and Turkey do not suffer from grave shortages of water. The irregular, unequal, often violent yearly regime of…

Water for Peace in the Jordan River Watershed

1993 | Natural Resources Journal Vol 33
Aaron Wolf

Legend has it that the headwaters of the Jordan RIver were originally three separate streams flowing in various directions, and quarreling constantly over which was…

A Case Study of a Multi-Lateral Water Negotiation: The Jordan River System

2009 | Conflict Resolution Volume II
Radwan A. Al-Weshah

During the entire process of negotiation for peace in the Middle East, water issues have been at the top of the negotiation agenda. Although plans…

The Jordan River and Dead Sea Basin: Cooperation amid Conflict

2009
Clive Lipchin, Deborah Sandler, and Emily Cushman

The 21st century will present unprecedented challenges. Already in its first decade we have seen the dramatic impact of two systemic risks, that of climate…

Regional Case Study: Middle East. Regional Water Cooperation and Peacebuilding in the Middle East

2008 | IFP Regional Cooperation on Environment, Economy, and Natural Resource Management Cluster
Annika Kramer

In the semi-arid to arid climatic conditions of the Middle East, water resources management is a contentious issue between parties sharing the same water resources.…

Handshake across the Jordan: Water and Understanding

2011 | SERIES Forum Umwelttechnik und Wasserbau: vol. 10
Markus Aufleger and Michael Mett

The book includes the papers of the presentations given during a conference on "Handshake across the Jordan: Water and Understanding" held in Pella, Jordan (26.09.2010 -…

Jordan River Case Study, Part II: The Negotiations and the Water Agreement between the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan and the State of Israel

UNESCO
Munther J. Haddadin and Uri Shamir

Two authors prepared the Jordan case study. Each one focused on a particular aspect related on this basin's management. Mr. Munther Haddadin addressed the history…

The Jordan River Basin‬, Case Study I: ‪Water Conflict and Negotiated Resolution

2003 | UNESCO
Munther J. Haddadin and Uri Shamir

Two authors prepared the Jordan case study. Each one focused on a particular aspect related on this basin's management. Mr. Munther Haddadin addressed the history…

Diplomacy on the Jordan: International Conflict and Negotiated Resolution

2001 | Natural Resource Management and Policy
Munther J. Haddadin

This interdisciplinary volume reviews the roots of conflict over the Jordan between Arabs and Jews and the development of that conflict over the past 150…

Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict

2011 | I. B. Tauris
Mark Zeitoun

Power and Water in the Middle East provides a powerful new perspective on the Palestinian-Israeli water conflict. Adopting a new approach to understanding water conflict…

Water, Cooperation and Peace in the Middle East

2013 | American University School of International Service
Christina Kehoe, Courtney Owen, Moses Jackson, Heather Speight, Joanna Fischer, Charles Christian, Erin Rosner

Water, Cooperation, and Peace presents a multidisciplinary study of environmental peacebuilding. The paper’s primary objective is to assess the peacebuilding significance of a cooperative Israeli-Palesti-nian…

Environmental Peacebuilding Theory and Practice: a Case Study of the Good Water Neighbours Project and In Depth Analysis of the Wadi Fukin/Tzur Hadassah Communities

2008 | Friends of the Earth Middle East

The “Good Water Neighbors” (GWN) project was established by EcoPeace / Friends of the Earth Middle East in 2001 to raise awareness of the shared…