Lunch Discussion "The Protection of Water Infrastructure in Relation to Armed Conflicts"
Dans son rapport 2017 "Une question de survie", le Panel mondial de haut niveau sur l'eau et la paix, co-convoqué par quinze pays, a souligné les conséquences désastreuses des conflits armés sur les infrastructures de l'eau. Suite à ses recommandations sur le renforcement du respect et de la mise en œuvre du droit international humanitaire en matière d'eau, la Plateforme pour le droit international de l'eau du Geneva Water Hub, hébergée à l'Université de Genève, a pris l'initiative, avec d'autres partenaires académiques, organisations internationales et non gouvernementales, de dresser une liste de principes protégeant les infrastructures de l'eau pendant et après les conflits armés. A travers la présentation de la liste de principes, le déjeuner-débat vise à explorer les moyens par lesquels ce document peut être utilisé par les praticiens travaillant dans les domaines de l'humanitaire et du développement et à favoriser la connaissance du rôle de la reconstruction des infrastructures de l'eau dans les contextes de fragilité, de conflits et de violence.
Président
Mrs Sarah Michael
Manager, Fragility, Conflict, Violence Global Themes Department.
Intervenants
Mr Danilo Türk
Former President of Slovenia and Geneva Water Hub Lead Political Advisor
Danilo Türk is a Slovenian diplomat, professor of international law, human rights expert, and political figure who served as President of Slovenia from 2007 to 2012. He was the first Slovene ambassador to the United Nations, from 1992 to 2000, and was the UN Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs from 2000 to 2005. He is a visiting professor of international law at Columbia University in New York City, a professor emeritus at the Faculty of Law of the University of Ljubljana, and non-resident senior fellow of Chongyang Institute for Financial studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing. He is the founder of the Danilo Türk Foundation, devoted mostly to the rehabilitation of child victims of armed conflict. He was also Chair of the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace between 2015 and 2017.
Mrs Mara Tignino
Reader at the Faculty of Law and Coordinator of the Platform for International Water Law at the University of Geneva and reader at the Geneva Water Hub, she holds a Ph.D. in international law from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. She was a Visiting Scholar at the George Washington University Law School.
Discutants
Mrs Alexandra Campbell-Ferrari
Executive Director of the Center for Water Security and Cooperation, she received her J.D. from The George Washington University, and has studied, researched and taught in the area of water law. She was a Research Scholar in Spain, focusing on EU and Spanish water law. She is also a member of the National Drinking Water Advisory Council, a U.S. expert body that advises on drinking water issues across the United States.
Mr Anders Jagerskog
Senior Water Resources Management Specialist, World Bank
Mr Timothy Grieve
Senior Advisor, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Section, Programme Division, UNICEF