Palestine-Israel


Occupational Hazards

2014 | Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins

Stamatopoulou-Robbins’s essay begins with an unlikely meeting between two groups—Israeli settlers and Palestinian village residents—who together opposed construction of a Palestinian Authority–run landfill in the…


Water Grabbing in Colonial Perspective: Land and Water in Israel/Palestine

2012 | Water Alternatives
Stephen Gasteyer, Jad Isaac, Jane Hillal, and Sean Walsh

 'Water grabbing' and 'land grabbing' have been referred to as a new colonialism, dispossessing small farmers and indigenous people of land and water for the…


EnPAx Icon Owls for Peace: Experiences from the Middle East [Video]

2019 | UCI Media and Environmental Peacebuilding Association
Alexandre Roulin

Alexandre Roulin's panel at the 1st annual Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding.


Women in War and Peace: Grassroots Peacebuilding

2000 | United States Institute of Peace
Donna Ramsey Marshall

The United States Institute of Peace strives, through research, education, and training, to understand this role of nongovernmental entities in bringing about a stable peace…


Water, Peace and the Middle East: Part 2 [Audio]

2019 | Global Institute for Water Security
Jay Famiglietti

Part 2 of our interview in Tel Aviv, Israel where host Jay Famiglietti sits down with Gidon Bromberg, co-founder and Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle…


Water, Peace and the Middle East: Part 1 [Audio]

2019 | Global Institute for Water Security
Jay Famiglietti

This episode, host Jay Famiglietti sits down with Gidon Bromberg, co-founder and Israeli Director of EcoPeace Middle East. Gidon comes from the most water-scarce region…


EcoPeace Annual Conference 2019 -- Summary of Proceedings

2019 | EcoPeace Middle East

Celebrating 25 years since the founding of the organization, EcoPeace held its annual conference on the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan with the…


The Dark Side of Environmental Peacebuilding

2020 | World Development
Tobias Ide

 Environmental peacebuilding refers to efforts aimed at building more peaceful relations through environmental cooperation, natural resource management, climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction. It…


Thirsty Planet: How Water Can Be a Source of Conflict or Cooperation

2019 | Wilson Center

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, they speak with Gidon Bromberg about the water crisis in the Middle East which has been exacerbated by climate change.  Bromberg also…


Sea, Sun, and Peace?

2019 | Wilson Quarterly
Naomi Zeveloff

In the Middle East, water has been a source of conflict since ancient times. In the Book of Chronicles, King Hezekiah of Judah stops the…


Lessons from Environmental Peacebuilding Programming

2019 | K4D
Sian Herbert

This rapid literature review collates lessons from conflict resolution/peacebuilding programmes that include land, resource management, and/or environmental issues. This is a burgeoning area of research…


Education and Environmental Peacebuilding: Insights from Three Projects in Israel and Palestine

2019 | Annals of the American Association of Geographers
Tobias Ide and Amit Tubi

 Environmental peacebuilding has attracted great scholarly and political interest in recent years, but little knowledge is available on the interface of education and environmental peacebuilding.…


Sea, Sun, and Peace?

2019 | Wilson Quarterly
Naomi Zeveloff

In the Middle East, water has been a source of conflict since ancient times. In the Book of Chronicles, King Hezekiah of Judah stops the…


Palestine - Peace by Piece: Transformative Conflict Resolution for Land and Transboundary Water Resources

2019 | Springer International Publishing
Ahmed Abukhater

This book draws lessons and conclusions, based on the methodology outlined in the author's previous book, Water as a Catalyst for Peace (Routledge, 2013), and…


EcoPeace's Directors Present on Water Security and Regional Cooperation at the UN Security Council

2019 | EcoPeace Middle East
Nada Majdalani, Gidon Bromberg, and Yana Abu Taleb

On April 29 2019, EcoPeace Middle East's Palestinian and Israeli Co-Directors, Nada Majdalani and Gidon Bromberg, accompanied by the organization’s Jordanian Co-Director, Yana Abu Taleb,…


Targeting Infrastructure and Livelihoods in the West Bank and Gaza

2019 | International Affairs
Erika Weinthal and Jeannie Sowers

State and non-state actors across many protracted conflicts and prolonged occupations in the Middle East and North Africa have systematically targeted civilian infrastructures. We use…


Gidon Bromberg on Water and Environmental Peacebuilding [Video]

2019 | Wilson Center
Evan Barnard

“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…


Climate Change, Water Security and National Security for Jordan, Palestine, and Israel

2019 | EcoPeace Middle East

The present paper is part of a regional EcoPeace Middle East project, which was uniquely comprised of a set of three national roundtables held in…


Climate Change, Water Security, and National Security for Jordan, Palestine and Israel

2019 | EcoPeace Middle East
Inga Carry and Giulia Giordano

The present paper is part of a regional EcoPeace Middle East project, which was uniquely comprised of a set of three national roundtables held in…


Climate Change, Water Security, and National Security for Jordan, Palestine, and Israel

2019 | Ecopeace Middle East
Inga Carry and Giulia Giordano

This paper is part of a regional EcoPeace Middle East project, which was uniquely comprised of a set of three national roundtables held in Amman,…


Environmental Justice and Peacebuilding in the Middle East

2007 | Peace Review
Ilan Alleson and Stuart Schoenfeld

Concern over the global environmental crisis may be aligned with contrasting discourses. On the one hand, it is invoked in the sentiment, "we are all…


Transboundary Water Cooperation over the Lower Part of the Jordan River Basin: Legal Political Economy Analysis of Current and Future Potential Cooperation

2017 | Hague Institute for Global Justice
Yumiko Yasuda, Juliane Schillinger, Patrick Huntjens, Charlotte Alofs, and Rens de Man

This publication is part of the project Water Diplomacy: Making Water Cooperation Work, led by The Hague Institute for Global Justice, in collaboration with the…


Environmental Framing and its Limits: Campaigns in Palestine and Israeli

2018 | International Journal of Middle East Studies
Emily McKee

As activists frame campaigns, their region's broader cultural and political context intercedes. In Israel and Palestine attempts to work across national lines and undertake activism…


External Evaluation - "Good Water Neighbours Project" - Concluding Report of Years 2012-2014

2014 | EcoPeace Middle East

The Good Water Neighbor (GWN) project is the flagship project of EcoPeace/Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) since 2001. FoEME's main objective is to…


Good Water Neighbors: Identifying Common Environmental Problems and Shared Solutions

2007 | EcoPeace Middle East

During the year 2006, local residents, businesses, municipal representatives and other stakeholders from seventeen Jordanian, Palestinian and Israeli communities involved in the Friends of the…


Water Scarcity, Conflict, and Migration: A Comparative Analysis and Reappraisal

2012 | Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy
Jan Selby and Clemens Hoffmann

How should we characterise the relations between environmental scarcity, conflict, and migration? Most academic and policy analyses conclude that scarcities of environmental resources can have…


Are There Limits to Environmental Peacebuilding? (Chapter in Routledge Handbook of Environmental Conflict and Peacebuilding)

2018 | Routledge
Anders Jägerskog

The past two decades have witnessed the emergence of a large body of research examining the linkage between environmental scarcity, violent conflict, and cooperation. However,…


The Effects of Violent Conflict on Household Resilience and Food Security: Evidence from the 2014 Gaza Conflict

2018 | World Development Journal
Tilman Brück, Marco d’Errico, and Rebecca Pietrelli

This paper studies how conflict affects household resilience capacity and food security, drawing on panel data collected from households in Palestine before and after the…


The Political and Cultural Dimensions of Water Diplomacy in the Middle East

2017 | Anthem Press
Lawrence E. Susskind

My overall interest is in identifying new and better ways of managing transboundary water resources. Better, in my view, means maximizing the sustainable use of…


Adapting to Climatic Variability along International River Basins in the Middle East

2017 | Anthem Press
Neda A. Zawahri

Various climate- change models are predicting an increase in temperature, a decrease in precipitation and an increase in the evaporation rate for the riparian states…