The Environmental Law Society, Human Rights Law Society, Law School Dean of Students Office, and the Harris Energy and Environmental Association present: 

Water Security in the Middle East – Challenges and Opportunities

with Gidon Bromberg of EcoPeace Middle East 

In the Middle East, water has often constituted a source of tension. For more than two decades, EcoPeace Middle East has engaged Israelis, Palestinians and Jordanians in the joint promotion of practical solutions to transboundary problems of water scarcity and pollution. In recent years, regional leaders have increasingly identified water security as a shared interest that transcends borders and even a potential avenue for peacebuilding.  EcoPeace co-director Gidon Bromberg will present the notion that water diplomacy can play a significant role to improve livelihoods and enhance stability in the region, especially in consideration of technological progress in the water sector. He will speak to the opportunity of creating healthy interdependencies between the countries of the region, and about the opportunity for moving forward on water issues in the peace process.

Mr. Gidon Bromberg is the co-founder and co-director of EcoPeace Middle East, an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian environmental peacebuilding organization. Together with his Palestinian and Jordanian co-directors, he was honored by TIME Magazine as Environmental Hero of 2008 and was granted the prestigious Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship in 2009, in addition to numerous other awards over the years. Mr. Bromberg speaks regularly on water, peace and security issues in various forums. He has presented before the UN Commission for Sustainable Development, the United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, the European Parliament and the advisory meeting to the UN High Level Panel on Security. In 2007, Mr. Bromberg was invited to join the prestigious East West Institute's International Task Force for Preventive Diplomacy. In 2007 he was awarded a Fellowship at Yale University on global leadership and was in invited by Yale University in 2009 to serve as an Advisory Board Member for the World Fellows Program.