Stockholm World Water Week: Connecting Water, Security and Peace through Ecosystems

Aug 29, 2018 | Geneva Water Hub
Stockholm, Sweden
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The relationship between water insecurity and peace has been increasingly appreciated and is attracting growing political attention. This is reflected in the focus of the recent Planetary Security Conference, The Hague, December 2017, reports published by the World Bank (Turbulent Waters), Wetlands International (Water Shocks), and the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace (A Matter of Survival). However, the role of ecosystems in translating the signal from climatic and hydrological variability into local contexts is still under-appreciated. Societal water access and use is very dependent on the status and management of ecosystems.

Mr Danilo Türk, Geneva Water Hub Lead Political Advisor and Chairman of the Global High Level-Panel on Water and Peace, will give the final reflections. Mr François Münger, Director of the Geneva Water Hub, will facilitate the Roundtable on water governance with a representative from the Secretariat of the Convention on the Protection and Use of Transboundary Watercourses and International Lakes.

For more information, please visit https://www.genevawaterhub.org/news/siwi-www-2018-connecting-water-security-and-peace-through-ecosystems. 

Where: Stockholm, Sweden

When: 29 August 2018

Organizer: Geneva Water Hub