Why does the Middle East need a new Hydro Diplomacy ?
In fact answer of this question is not difficult. But the implementation of a new approach to solve vital problems have always been very difficult in the Middle East. They have been more difficult if they are related with water .
In the Middle East , the international water management situation is getting extremely difficult as the years go by. So it requires an urgent applicable plan that accepted by all neighboring countries. It also requires basin wide river and soil management commission.
First of all there should be a “shared goal” and “unity of effort” for implementation of the solution. Solution efforts should firstly consider current and near future tragedy in daily life It requires a paradigm shift from vision to action anymore. The climate change effect and current collapsed situation with non-cooperation in the last five years must lead to paradigm shift on regional hydro diplomacy .
Very new and extremely valuable report titled “Cost of Non-Cooperation on Water Crisis of Survival in the Middle East” has been published by Stratetic Foresight Group in August 2016.
Executive Director of the Strategic Foresight Group Ilmas Futehally stated in Foreword of the report that
“In particular, in Iraq and Syria, the institutions of state have collapsed. Social contract between the state and citizens has broken down. Farms, villages, cities have lost their economic drive. Millions of people have been forced to migrate either within the region or outside. The failure of the summer of 2011 to consolidate the elements of the new Middle East led to the refugee crisis of the summer of 2016, having an impact on Europe. It is logical to argue that the rise of some of the extremist right wing forces in Europe was thus a result of the refugee crisis which in in turn was on account of the collapse of government and cooperation in the Levant region”.
Behind the dramatic pictures, and emotional outpouring in various media, are hard facts of the cost of non-cooperation in the last 5 years. These facts provide evidence of the exact extent of the loss of crops, reduction in access to water, damage to infrastructure, impact on health and loss of livelihoods, and other realities of daily life.
to read full report please click on
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Why does the Middle East need a new Hydro Diplomacy ?
In fact answer of this question is not difficult. But the implementation of a new approach to solve vital problems have always been very difficult in the Middle East. They have been more difficult if they are related with water .
In the Middle East , the international water management situation is getting extremely difficult as the years go by. So it requires an urgent applicable plan that accepted by all neighboring countries. It also requires basin wide river and soil management commission.
First of all there should be a “shared goal” and “unity of effort” for implementation of the solution. Solution efforts should firstly consider current and near future tragedy in daily life It requires a paradigm shift from vision to action anymore. The climate change effect and current collapsed situation with non-cooperation in the last five years must lead to paradigm shift on regional hydro diplomacy .
Very new and extremely valuable report titled “Cost of Non-Cooperation on Water Crisis of Survival in the Middle East” has been published by Stratetic Foresight Group in August 2016.
Executive Director of the Strategic Foresight Group Ilmas Futehally stated in Foreword of the report that
“In particular, in Iraq and Syria, the institutions of state have collapsed. Social contract between the state and citizens has broken down. Farms, villages, cities have lost their economic drive. Millions of people have been forced to migrate either within the region or outside. The failure of the summer of 2011 to consolidate the elements of the new Middle East led to the refugee crisis of the summer of 2016, having an impact on Europe. It is logical to argue that the rise of some of the extremist right wing forces in Europe was thus a result of the refugee crisis which in in turn was on account of the collapse of government and cooperation in the Levant region”.
Behind the dramatic pictures, and emotional outpouring in various media, are hard facts of the cost of non-cooperation in the last 5 years. These facts provide evidence of the exact extent of the loss of crops, reduction in access to water, damage to infrastructure, impact on health and loss of livelihoods, and other realities of daily life.
to read full report please click on
/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Why_Water_Issues_Are_Crucial_to_Stabilit.pdf
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