Water experts from the MENA region called on the regional parties and international community to strengthen “water diplomacy” as a preventive action and a path to achieve sustainable development and durable peace.Inaugurating IPI MENA’s Water Preventive Diplomacy Conference on April 11, 2018, H.E Dr. Abdul Hussain bin Ali Mirza, Bahrain’s Minister of Electricity and Water […]
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Using preventive diplomacy to find sustainable solutions to water-related challenges in the MENA region is the strategic objective of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) signed on October 17, 2017 by IPI President Terje Rod-Larsen, and Shaban Abdelhamid Osman, President & CEO of 1958 Project Management & Marketing S.P.C (1958 PMM).During the signing ceremony held at […]
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The contemporary challenge facing the Nile basin countries is that of how to establish a legal framework for the utilization of its waters that is acceptable to all.
Read moreThe transitional justice tribunal might have survived this first challenge, but it came out bruised, especially in the court of public opinion.
Given the history of ethnic, religious, and regional fragmentation and today’s military response, it is important that there be dialogue on the issues that can further impede…
As national actors prepare to report on progress at the 2019 HLPF, it is vital that all the work of actors at the local level…
Before the window of opportunity closes, the UN, WHO, and international, national, and local partners will need to work…
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