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A Sister Cities Coalition Builds Peace Through Water in the Lower Jordan Valley
›Water is a key ingredient for peace, especially in the Middle East. The Jordan River, which forms the border between Israel, the Palestinian West Bank, and Jordan, is central to the interrelated political and environmental challenges facing the region. Addressing these challenges requires not only high-level diplomacy but also direct, people-to-people engagement, which can form lasting relationships that go beyond water, said experts at the Wilson Center on October 17. [Video Below]
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Gerald Stang, European Union Institute for Security Studies
Climate Change and EU Security: When and How Do They Intersect?
›December 3, 2014 // By Wilson Center StaffThe potential security challenges linked with climate change can make for great headlines. While sensationalist claims about water wars, states collapsing in chaos, or the forced migration of hundreds of millions cannot be completely discounted for the long term, intelligent mitigation and adaptation efforts can help avoid the worst of these – and manage the rest.
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New Portal for Himalayan Region Aims to Provide Better Environmental Data
›“There was drought so we had to share the little water brought a long distance from irrigation canals to the field. This delay in rice planting is resulting in a late harvest,” explains Ratna Darai, 47, a farmer in Daraipadhera, Nepal, during an interview with The Third Pole reporter Ramesh Bhushal. An erratic monsoon means an uncertain harvest in a nation where agricultural production is not on pace with population growth. Water insecurity is a major driver of conflict and uncertainly in the world’s most populous continent.
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Gidon Bromberg on Environmental Peacebuilding in the Lower Jordan Valley
›“When you turn on the tap in any community in Israel, water will always flow. That’s not the case in Palestine, and it’s not always the case in Jordan either,” says Gidon Bromberg, Israeli director of EcoPeace Middle East, in this week’s podcast.
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Dividend or Divide? Africa’s Demographic Challenge
›“Sub-Saharan Africa’s young people are in effect the global labor force of the future,” said Jack Goldstone at the Wilson Center on October 15. “Whether they are productive, how large that cohort turns out to be, whether they find work or not, is going to have a bearing, I think, on all of us.” [Video Below]
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Integrated Development Programs Work to Expand Conservation and Health Efforts in Uganda and Madagascar
›As is becoming clear, climate change, environmental degradation, population, and poverty alleviation are inextricably linked in many parts of the world. [Video Below]
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Earth Pushes Back: Era of Indifference Greets Droughts, Floods, Storms, Tsunamis
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Peter Schwartzstein, National Geographic
Amid Terror Attacks, Iraq Faces Water Crisis
›November 5, 2014 // By Wilson Center StaffViewed from afar, the two-mile-long Mosul Dam is an impressive sight on the flat, sunbaked northern plains.
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