Debate: How to report on water conflict and cooperation

Mar 1, 2021 | SciDev.Net
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News reports can influence negotiations over shared water resources and play a key role in determining if the outcome is conflict, or cooperation.

Join SciDev.Net as a panel of water experts, diplomats and journalists debate how to communicate in the sensitive context of international rivers, such as the Nile and Brahmaputra. How can journalists report in a critical, but informed, way on these complex topics? And how can scientific and technical facts about water be made accessible to broader audiences to support shared narratives on international rivers?

The panel:
Jane Baitwa, communications and stakeholder engagement specialist at the Nile Basin Initiative

Joydeep Gupta, environment journalist and director of The Third Pole and India Climate Dialogue

Rehab Abd Almohsen, freelance science journalist and editor

Emanuele Fantini, lecturer and researcher at the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

Ashok Swain, head of Uppsala University's Department of Peace and Conflict Research

Jenniver Sehring, senior lecturer in water governance and diplomacy, IHE Delft Institute for Water Education

Date: March 1, 2021

Time: 10am GMT/ 5am EST

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