“The environment and natural resources are crucial in consolidating peace within and between war-torn societies… Protecting the environment can help countries create employment opportunities, promote development and avoid a relapse into armed conflict."
—United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon

 

Water and Post-Conflict Peacebuilding

Edited by Jessica Troell and Erika Weinthal

Foreword by President Mikhail Gorbachev, Green Cross International

 

Shoring up peace: Water and post-conflict peacebuilding

Jessica Troell, Environmental Law Institute ( USA)
Erika Weinthal, Duke University ( USA)

PART 1: BASIC SERVICES AND HUMAN SECURITY

Introduction

 

The Role of Informal Service Providers in Post-Conflict Reconstruction and State Building

Jeremy Allouche, University of Sussex (UK)

A Tale of Two Cities: Restoring Water Services in Kabul and Monrovia

Jean-François Pinera, Médecins Sans Frontières (France)
Robert A. Reed, Loughborough University (UK)

Conflict and Collaboration for Water Resources in Angola's Post-War Cities

Allan Cain, Development Workshop (Canada)
Martin Mulenga, International Institute for Environment and Development (Zambia)

Thirsty for Peace: The Water Sector in Southern Sudan

Sam Huston, US Agency for International Development (USA)

Community water management: Experiences from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Afghanistan, and Liberia

Murray Burt, Tearfund (New Zealand)
Bilha Keiru, Tearfund (Kenya)

Environmental management of the Iraqi marshlands in the post-conflict period

Chizuru Aoki, United Nations Environment Programme (Japan)
Sivapragasam Kugaprasatham, United Nations Environment Programme (Sri Lanka)
Ali Al-Lami, Iraqi Marshland Project (Iraq)

PART 2: LIVELIHOODS

Lessons of Water Resource Management, From Perspectives of Irrigation Water-Use Management and Flood Control: A Case Study of Japan after World War II

Mikiko Sugiura, University of Tokyo, (Japan)
Yuka Toguchi, University of Tokyo (Japan)
Mona Funiciello, Environmental Law Institute (USA)

Refugee Rehabilitation and Transboundary Cooperation: India, Pakistan, and the Indus River System

Neda A. Zawahri, Cleveland State University (Jordan/USA)

Despite the Best Intentions? The Political Ecology of Water Resource Management in North Afghanistan

Jennifer McCarthy, Kings College London
Daanish Mustafa, Kings College London (Pakistan)

Water's Role in Security and Stabilization in Helmand Province, Afghanistan

Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney, US Army Corps of Engineers (USA)

PART 3: PEACE PROCESSES, COOPERATION, AND CONFIDENCE BUILDING

Introduction

 

The Jordan River Basin: A Conflict Like No Other

Munther Haddadin (Jordan)

Transboundary Cooperation in the Lower Jordan River Basin

Munqeth Mehyar, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Jordan)
Nader Khateeb, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Palestine)
Gidon Bromberg, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Israel)
Elizabeth Ya'ari, Friends of the Earth Middle East (Israel)

The Sava River: Tranistioning to Peace in the Former Yugoslavia

Amar Colakhodzic (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Marija Filipovic, Columbia University (Serbia)
Jana Kovandzic, Central European University (Serbia)
Stephen Stec, Central European University/Leiden University (USA)

Transnational Cooperation over Shared Water Resources in the South Caucusus – Reflections on USAID Interventions

Marina Vardanyan, US Agency for International Development (Armenia)
Richard Volk, US Agency for International Development (USA)

Water Security and Scarcity: Potential Destabilization in Western Afghanistan and Iranisn Sistan and Baluchestan due to Transboundary Water Conflicts

Alex Dehgan, US Agency for International Development (USA)
Laura Jean Palmer-Moloney, US Army Corps of Engineers (USA)
Mehdi Mirzaee, Islamic Azad University/Oregon State University (Iran)

Water resources in the Sudan north-south peace process and the ramifications of the secession of South Sudan

Salman M. A. Salman, World Bank (Sudan)

PART 4: LEGAL FRAMEWORKS

Introduction

 

Management of Waters in Post-Dayton Bosnia and Herzegovina: Policy, Legal, and Institutional Aspects

Slavko Bogdanovic, University of Novi Sad

The Right to Water and Sanitation in Post-Conflict Legal Mechanisms: An Emerging Regime?

Mara Tignino, George Washington University (Switzerland)

PART 5: LESSONS LEARNED

Harnessing water management for more effective peacebuilding: Lessons learned

Jessica Troell, Environmental Law Institute (USA)
Erika Weinthal, Duke University (USA)

*denotes contributions supported by the Center for Global Partnership (CGP) of the Japan Foundation. See http://www.eli.org/Program_Areas/SPCSD/index.cfm.