International Peace Institute launches Water Diplomacy

Manama : The International Peace Institute announced launching a ‘Water Diplomacy’ programme in collaboration with 1958 project management and marketing. 

The move aims at identifying preventive diplomacy tools to water-related differences in the MENA region that are sustainable. 

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) to this end was signed by Terje Rod-Larsen, President of the International Peace Institute (IPI) and Shaban Abdelhamid Osman, President & CEO of 1958 Project Management & Marketing S.P.C (1958 PMM) on October 17, 2017.

During the signing ceremony held at IPI’s Middle East and North Africa office (IPI MENA) in Bahrain, both parties stressed that water diplomacy is proving instrumental “now more than ever” in order to prevent fast-escalating water-related divides from developing into threats to peace.

 IPI and 1958 PMM will seek to identify ways different actors can address water resources and scarcity within and among countries of the region, and find frameworks to allow sustainable peace-based solutions by embedding them in a comprehensive and collaborative strategy that links solving water-related differences to broader cooperation in the region.

IPI and 1958 PMM will jointly identify and rely on regional and international expertise through studies, convening, and outreach, including with multilateral institutions and other relevant organisations.