Palestine-Israel
Options and Strategies for Planning Water and Climate Security in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
2022
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Water
Amal Sarsour and Nidhi Nagabhatla
Water security is at the front and center of climate change, human security, and sustainable development in regions and communities with competing water usage contexts,…
How Water Strategizing Is Remaking the Middle East
2022
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Wilson Center
Peter Schwartzstein
MENA’s best hope may lie in increasing transnational cooperation on water to avoid conflict. Some deals have already taken place, but the region faces a…
Environment of Peace: Security in a New Era of Risk
2022
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Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
José Francisco Alvarado Cóbar, Kyungmee Kim, Geoffrey Dabelko, Anniek Barnhoorn, Florian Krampe, Evelyn Salas Alfaro, Noah Bell, Claire McAllister, Emilie Broek, David Michel, Karolina Eklöw, Elise Remling, Jakob Faller, Elizabeth Smith, Andrea Gadnert, D
Behind the headlines of war in Europe and the aftershocks of the Covid-19 pandemic, our world is being drawn into a black hole of deepening twin…
Report of the Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance on Ecological Crisis, Climate Justice, and Racial Justice
2022
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UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights
E. Tendayi Achiume
In the present report, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance highlights the racially discriminatory and unjust roots…
Hydro-Hegemony, Water Governance, and Water Security: Palestinians under Israeli Occupation in the Jordan Valley, West Bank
2022
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Water Alternatives
Michelle Rudolph and Rachel Kurian
'Hydro-hegemony' typically refers to the power-related tactics and strategies used by stronger states in transboundary water disputes that prioritise their access to water and compel…
Regional Lessons from the COVID-19 Outbreak in the Middle East: From Infectious Diseases to Climate Change Adaptation
2021
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Science of the Total Environment
Maya Negev, Yara Dahdal, Haneen Khreis, Assaf Hochman, Mohammed Shaheen, Madi T.A. Jaghbir, Pinhas Alpert, Hagai Levine, and Nadav Davidovitch
Global health threats including epidemics and climate change, know no political borders and require regional collaboration if they are to be dealt with effectively. This…
Water Management in the West Bank: Implications on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
2020
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Babes-Bolyai University and University of Port Harcourt
Boma Amaso and Fidelis Allen
The struggle for scarce natural resources (like water) exacerbated by climate change often leads to conflict. This paper exposes the implications of the control and…
Crossing Borders through Environmental Cooperation Civil Society and Environmental Peacebuilding in the Lower Part of the Jordan River: The Case of EcoPeace Middle East between 1994 and 2020
2021
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Utrecht University
Alice Carnevali
This research project examines how the environmental non-governmental organization (NGO) EcoPeace Middle East (EcoPeace) defined its role as a non-state environmental peacebuilder over the Jordan…
Climate-Fragility Risk Brief: Jordan, Palestine and Israel
2021
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Climate Security Expert Network
Giulia Giordano and Lukas Rüttinger
The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is considered a climate-security hotspot due to its natural water scarcity, low levels of socio-ecological resilience, social…
Implementation Constraints on Israel–Palestine Water Cooperation: An Analysis Using the Water Governance Assessment Framework
2021
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Water
Liping Dai
This study uses a diagnostic and multidisciplinary water governance assessment framework to examine the main factors influencing water cooperation on the shared Mountain Aquifer between…
Mapping Untreated and Semi-Treated Wastewater Effluent off the Coast of Gaza with Sentinel-1 Time Series Data
2020
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Oregon State University
Anna D. Ballasiotes
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is one of the most contested and complicated conflicts in the world. As one of the occupied Palestinian Territories recognized by the…
On Health and Water Security (Chapter in "Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration)
2020
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Springer
Úrsula Oswald Spring
Climate change is severely affecting the availability of water and its quality. Therefore it represents a direct challenge to health. Not only the water-born, but…
The Climate Crisis and the Changing Security Environment of the Middle East
2020
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EcoPeace Middle East and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung
Climate variability is generally not regarded as a direct cause of conflict but rather as a phenomenon that can worsen or exacerbate pre-existing sources of…
A Green Blue Deal for the Middle East
2020
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EcoPeace Middle East
Gidon Bromberg, Nada Majdalani, and Yana Abu Taleb
The climate crisis is often described as a threat multiplier, where the weak adaptive capacity of a state or a region to deal with the…
Desk Study on the Opportunities and Implications of Releasing Treated Effluent in the Lower Stretches on the Jordan River and Dead Sea
2020
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EcoPeace Middle East and Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung
Amanda Lounsbury, Dina Kolker, and Revital Bookman
The Dead Sea, bordered by Jordan, Israel, and Palestine, is a natural wonder with unique geological, ecological, and historical importance that is valued world-wide by…
Good Water Neighbors? A Study of Environmental Peacebuilding in Israel and Palestine
2018
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University of Manitoba
Inga Schierholz
Water scarcity, pollution, and unequal distribution add complexity to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In response, EcoPeace Middle East engages Israelis, Palestinians, and Jordanians in cross-border environmental…
Environmental Peacebuilding and the Transferability of EcoPeace Middle East’s Strategy
2020
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University of Michigan
Andrew Light
Environmental peacebuilding is a theory of conflict management used by EcoPeace Middle East in the Jordan River Valley. The theory posits that despite a seemingly…
Israel Can’t Hide Evidence of Its Occupation Anymore
2020
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Foreign Policy
Zena Agha
For the past two decades, there has been a general—and mostly unchallenged—understanding that satellite imagery is restricted over Israel and the Palestinian and Syrian territories…
Environmental Peacebuilding and the Transferability of EcoPeace Middle East’s Strategy
2020
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University of Michigan
Andrew Light
Environmental peacebuilding is a theory of conflict management used by EcoPeace Middle East in the Jordan River Valley. The theory posits that despite a seemingly…
Energizing Mid-East Water Diplomacy: The Potential for Regional Water–Energy Exchanges
2020
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Water International
David Katz and Arkadiy Shafron
This article presents a nongovernmental initiative to address asymmetric hydropolitical relations in the Jordan River basin through issue linkage. The initiative would develop desalination capacity…
Moving Water from Last to First in the Middle East Peace Process
2020
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International Journal of Water Resources Development
David B. Brooks and Julie Trottier
Differences about fresh water rarely if ever lead to war between neighbouring nations. However, lack of agreement about equitable water use will sooner or later disrupt water…
The Political Role of Date Palm Trees in the Jordan Valley: The Transformation of Palestinian Land and Water Tenure in Agriculture Made Invisible by Epistemic Violence
2020
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Environment and Planning
Julie Trottier, Nelly Leblond, and Yaakov Garb
In the West Bank, date palm trees have been sweeping over the Jordan Valley at an accelerating rate since the 2000s. The current scientific literature…
Leaders Who Care [Video]
2020
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Molinari Media
Nada Majdalani, Yanu Abu-Taleb, and Gidon Bromberg
Meet Yana, Nada, & Gidon. EcoPeace Middle East is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, & Israeli environmentalists. Our primary objective is the promotion…
Pathways to Water Conflict during Drought in the MENA Region
2020
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Journal of Peace Research
Tobias Ide, Miguel Rodriguez Lopez, Christiane Fröhlich, and Jürgen Scheffran
As hydro-meteorological hazards are predicted to become more frequent and intense in the future, scholars and policymakers are increasingly concerned about their security implications, especially…
The Environmental Peacemaker [Audio]
2020
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Tel Aviv Review
There’s no time like the COVID-19 pandemic to learn about the interconnectedness of countries in the Middle East – even across conflict lines. Gidon Bromberg,…
Energizing Mid-East Water Diplomacy: The Potential for Regional Water–Energy Exchanges
2020
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Water International
David Katz and Arkadiy Shafran
This article presents a nongovernmental initiative to address asymmetric hydropolitical relations in the Jordan River basin through issue linkage. The initiative would develop desalination capacity…
Middle East Hydropolitics: Water Scarcity and Conflicts in the Middle East
1989
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Ambio
Malin Falkenmark
The population increase in regions with already high levels of water scarcity may be expected to generate water crises. What may be forseen is an…
Hydro-Apartheid and Water Access in Israel-Palestine: Challenging the Myths of Cooperation and Scarcity (chapter in "Decolonizing Palestinian Political Economy: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies")
2014
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Palgrave Macmillan
Clemens Messerschmid
This chapter challenges the most enduring myths surrounding access to water in the Israel-Palestine context by tracing the main mechanisms and interests at work shaping…
A Place of Empathy in a Fragile, Contentious Landscape: Environmental Peacebuilding in the Eastern Mediterranean (chapter in "The Geographies of Peace: New Approaches to Boundaries, Diplomacy and Conflict")
2014
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I.B. Taurus
Stuart Schoenfeld, Asaf Zohar, Ilan Alleson, Osama Suleiman, and Galya Sipos-Randor
This chapter pushes the development of a geography of peace by focusing on the Arava Institute as a meeting place in a highly contested landscape.…
To What Extent Does the Issue of Water Play a Role in the Israel-Palestine Conflict?
2011
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The Applied Research Institute Jerusalem
Hollie Marie Smith
Mismanagement, occupation and overuse of already scarce water resources in the Middle East are increasingly becoming one of the main contributing factors towards conflict in…