Palestine-Israel

A Watershed-Based Approach to Mitigating Transboundary Wastewater Conflicts between Israel and the Palestinian Authority: The Besor-Hebron-Be'er Sheva Watershed

2017 | Anthem Press
Clive Lipchin and Tamee Albrecht

Approximately 16 streams in Israel are transboundary in nature, or shared between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA), and roughly two- thirds of these streams…

Depoliticising Water Conflict: The Quest for 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…

Toward a Constructivist Understanding of Socio-environmental Conflicts

2016 | Civil Wars
Tobias Ide

The links between environmental degradation, renewable resource scarcity, and conflict are still poorly understood. One reason for this is the positivist–rationalist bias which is characteristic…

Natural Resources, Palestine-Israel and Regional Peace

2014 | Palestine-Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture
Johan Galtung

Water Energy Nexus: A Pre-Feasibility Study for Mid-East Water Renewable Energy Exchanges

2017 | EcoPeace Middle East and the Konrad-Adenauer Stiftung
David Katz and Arkady Shafran

The Levant area of the Middle East suffers from scarce supplies of fresh water and lacks developed renewable energy supplies. The region is also facing…

‘Nature Knows No Boundaries’: The Role of Nature Conservation in Peacebuilding

2017 | Trends in Ecology & Evolution
Alexandre Roulin, Mansour Abu Rashid, Baruch Spiegel, Motti Charter, Amélie N. Dreiss, and Yossi Leshem

Humanity is facing a biodiversity crisis. To solve environmental problems, we bring people from Israel, Jordan, and the Palestinian Authority to the same table. Conservation…

Water as a Basic Human Right within the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2017 | American Diplomacy
Erika Weinthal

In the Middle East, water often crosses political borders; because water is a shared resource, its effective management demands cooperation among different users. In the…

Israeli Water Diplomacy and National Security Concerns

2018 | EcoPeace Middle East and INSS
Oded Eran, Gidon Bromberg, and Giulia Giordano

This paper reflects on the concepts of water security and water diplomacy, describes the state of water security in Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Territories,…

The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict over Water Resources

1998 | Palestine-Israel Journal
Arnon Sofer

If, after 49 years of bloody conflict between Israel and its neighbors, we are approaching the conclusion of hostilities, there will undoubtedly be renewed attempts…

Water in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2016 | European Parliament
Elena Lazarou

The Palestinian population in the West Bank and Gaza is one of the fastest growing in the world and its demand for water is increasing.…

Situating Water in Peacebuilding: Revisiting the Middle East Peace Process

2013 | Water International
Karin Aggestam and Anna Sundell-Eklund

Few studies have conceptually discussed the linkage between hydropolitics and peacebuilding. This article critically assesses the problematique of conflict and cooperation in the Jordan River basin and…

Unpacking the Complex Nature of Cooperative Interactions: Case Studies of Israeli–Palestinian Environmental Cooperation in the Greater Bethlehem Area

2016 | Geojournal
Kyra Marie Reynolds

In the last few decades, a growing number of theorists have suggested that the natural environment can be a platform for promoting cooperation between former…

Decoupling National Water Needs for National Water Supplies: Insights and Potential for Countries in the Jordan Basin

2017 | West Asia-North Africa Institute
Michael Gilmont, Steve Rayner, Erica Harper, Lara Nassar, Nadav Tal, Mike Simpson, and Hilmi Salem

This report analyses and compares the water allocation and management experience of Jordan, Palestine and Israel using the lens of economic and resource decoupling to…

A Future for Israeli-Palestinian Peacebuilding

2017 | Britain Israel Communications and Research Centre
Ned Lazarus

In today’s polarised Israel-Palestine debate, there are two propositions to which all sides might agree: June 2017 marked 50 years of Israeli military rule over…

EcoPeace Middle East Strategic Five Year Plan, 2017-2021

2017 | EcoPeace Middle East

EcoPeace Middle East operates under a 5-year strategic planning process. This new Strategic Plan for the years 2017-2021 builds on our earlier 5-year plan while…

Climate Change, Securitisation and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

2013 | The Geographical Journal
Michael Mason

Securitisation theory serves as a useful corrective to the ‘climate determinism’ evident in mainstream debates on the security effects of climate change, but there are…

Decoupling National Water Needs for National Water Supplies: Insights and Potential for Countries in the Jordan Basin

2017 | West Asia-North Africa Institute
Michael Gilmont, Steve Rayner, Erica Harper, Lara Nassar, Nadav Tal, Mike Simpson, and Hilmi Salem

This report analyses and compares the water allocation and management experience of Jordan, Palestine and Israel using the lens of economic and resource decoupling to…

The Water Security Concept--Challenges and Opportunities for Cooperation in the Middle East

2017 | EcoPeace Middle East
Gidon Bromberg and Giulia Giordano

The concept of water security has attracted growing attention in the past few years. Multiple definitions can be found in both policy and academic literature,…

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…

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…

Nature Knows No Boundaries: The Role of Nature Conservation in Peacebuilding

2017 | Trends in Ecology and Evolution
Alexandre Roulin, Alexandre Roulin, Alexandre Roulin, Mansour Abu Rashid, Baruch Spiegel, Motti Charter, Amélie N. Dreiss, and Yossi Leshem

Nature is sometimes a source of conflicts, but more often suffers as a result of them. Although in some instances warfare might benefit wildlife by…

Global Water Wars [Video]

2017 | National Geographic

This episode of Parched zeroes in on India and Syria, two of the world’s most vulnerable hot spots for water-related conflict.

Lage.Bericht//Middle East//EcoPeace - Water and Energy: Working Together for More Security [Video]

2017 | Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

In the Middle East, the consequences of climate change are already a reality of life. The region is one of the most water-stressed areas in…

River Out of Eden: Water, Ecology, and the Jordan River in the Christian Tradition

2014 | EcoPeace Middle East and Save the Jordan
Daniel Adamson

We recognize that the Jordan River Valley is a landscape of outstanding ecological and cultural importance. It connects the eco-systems of Africa and Asia, forms…

Come Together at the River

2016 | EcoPeace Middle East

The Jordan River is a 250-kilometre long river, originating at Mount Hermon (Jabel Sheikh), flowing into the Sea of Galilee, and meandering its way down…

Protecting Groundwater

2014 | EcoPeace Middle East
EcoPeace Middle East

Groundwater is the world’s most important source of freshwater, constituting 97% of the Earth’s freshwater reserves. However, in the Mediterranean Region, groundwater quality along the…

River out of Eden: Water, Ecology, and the Jordan River in the Jewish Tradition

2014 | EcoPeace, Friends of the Earth Middle East
EcoPeace, Friends of the Earth Middle East

We recognize that the Jordan River Valley is a landscape of outstanding ecological and cultural importance. It connects the eco-systems of Africa and Asia, forms…

The Nature of Enabling Conditions of Transboundary Water Management: Learning from the Negotiation of the Indus and Jordan Basin Treaties

2017 | Chapter in "Water Diplomacy in Action: Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems"
Enamul Choudhury

Today we face an incredibly complex array of interconnected water issues that cross multiple boundaries: Is water a property or a human right? How do…

Mediation in the Israeli-Palestinian Water Conflict: A Practicioner's View

2017 | Chapter in "Water Diplomacy in Action: Contingent Approaches to Managing Complex Water Problems"
Patrick Huntjens

Today we face an incredibly complex array of interconnected water issues that cross multiple boundaries: Is water a property or a human right? How do…

Water Security and Sustainable Development for our Common Future: EcoPeace Regional Conference

2016 | EcoPeace Middle East

On November 22nd & 23rd, EcoPeace held its Annual Regional Conference on the shores of the Dead Sea in Jordan. Under the patronage of the…