Global High-Level Panel on Water & Peace - Private area

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Welcome to the private area dedicated to the work of the Global High-Level Panel on Water & Peace.

You will find here below some key ressource documents and information related to your work and to the events that will be organised in the next two years.

Contact details

List of panelists with pictures and contact details

Inputs for the Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace by the Geneva Water Hub – Secretariat of the Panel

Think-Tank Roundtable - Summary Report  - "The Protection of Water During and After Armed Conflicts" - July 2016

Think-Tank Roundtable - Summary Report  - "Promoting the Effectiveness of International Water Law in Support of Security and Peace" - October 2016

Think-Tank Roundtable - Summary Report  - "Intersectorality and Conflict" - November 2016

Panel meetings

Senegal

The second Full panel meeting took place in Senegal, on 5-6 April 2016.

Discussion papers:

1. Strategy note on onging initiatives that the Panel could be associated with; Prof. Andras Szöllösi-Nagy

2. Note on lessons learned from the successes and failures of past commissions; Strategic Foresight Group

3. Notes on creating financial incentives for promoting water cooperation; joint contributions by Dr. Alvaro Umaña Quesada and Dr. Pascual Fernández and contribution by Dr. Pascual Fernández

4. Notes on (i) How to protect water infrastructure from a legal and a technical point of view in armed conflicts ); and (ii) How to Use Water asa Strategic Asset for Post-Conflict Reconstruction, contributions by Prof. Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Dr. Mara Tignino and by Frank Galland

5. Note on how to use water as a tool for peace-building in a situation of conflict between two or more countries; Mr Ciaran O'Cuinn

6. i) Note on inter-sectoral water issues ; Dr. Claudia Patricia Mora and Mr Aziz Bouignane together with the Geneva Water Hub; ii) GWH Note on intersectoral water issues

Additional resources

Conflict and mediation

adelphi - The rise of hydro-diplomacy (2014)

Center for Security Studies - Mediating Water Use Conflict (2013)

New! Geneva Water Hub - Note on Promoting Hydro-diplomacy in Conflict Basins (2016)

Strategic Foresight Group - Water Cooperation Quotient (2015)

New! Strategic Foresight Group - Portection of Water Resources and Infrastructure in Armed Conflict and against Acts of Terror (2016)

Tignino - Water, International Peace and Security (2010)

von Lossow - Water as weapon (2015) 

Policy and law

Boisson de Chazournes - Le droit à l'eau et la satisfaction des besoins humains: notions de justice (2014)

Boisson de Chazournes - Freshwater and International Law: the Interplay between Universal, Regional and Basin Perspective (2009)

Boisson de Chazournes - L'entrée en vigueur de la Convention des Nations Unies sur le droit relatif aux utilisations des cours d'eau internationaux à des fins autres que la navigation (1997)

Tignino - The Right to Water and Sanitation in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding (2011)

Business, economics, and finance

New! Geneva Water Hub - Note on Code of Conduct for Business Operating in Conflict Basins (2016)

New! Geneva Water Hub - Note on Benefit Sharing in Conflict Basins (2016)

New! Strategic Foresight Group - Financial Incentives for Water Cooperation (2016)

Regional

New! Geneva Water Hub - Note on Water Governance in OMVS and ABN (2016)

Geneva Water Hub - Summary Report of Roundtable on cooperation and benefit sharing in the basins of the Senegal River and the Niger River (Sept. 2015)

Mbengue - A Model for African Shared Water Resources: the Senegal River Legal System (2014)

General

Gallagher, L., Dalton, J., and Bréthaut, C. - The Critical Role of Risk in setting directions for water, food and energy policy and research_(2015)

Panel documents

New! Draft Terms of Refence for Group of Friends on Water and Peace (March 2016)

Non-paper (May 2015)

Terms of References (November 2015)

First meeting of the GHLPWP - Annotated Agenda

Topics

• Ongoing initiatives that the Panel could be associated with (Andras Szöllösi-Nagy)
• Lessons to be learnt from the successes and failures of past commissions (SFG)
• Creating financial incentives for promoting water cooperation (Alvaro Umaña Quesada and Pascual Fernandez)
• Protect water infrastructure from a legal and a technical point of view in armed conflicts (Franck Galland and Laurence Boisson de Chazournes)
• Use water as a strategic asset for post-conflict reconstruction
• Use water as a tool for peace-building in a situation of conflict between two or more countries (Ciaran O’Cuinn)
• Inter-sectoral water issues (Claudia Patricia Mora and Aziz Bouignane)