This month FoEME's Good Water Neighbors' project hosted a camp for Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian young people in Ein Gedi. The group came together for two days to learn about their shared natural environment and hands-on techniques for reducing water pollution such as through building constructed wetlands. The young environmentalists also went for a group hike on the local GWN Neighbor's Path which highlights the shared resources and environmental threats in the Dead Sea area.
The Good Water Neighbors project was pleased to host James Bever, the United States Agency for International Development's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East Bureau in a visit to the partnered communities of Wadi Fukin and Tzur Hadassah this month. The visiting diplomat took a tour of the Neighbors' Path and spoke with local residents about the environmental peacemaking efforts being undertaken at the grassroots level in the two communities.
Visit our website to read the Neighbor's Path brochures for each of our GWN seventeen communities, read recent press coverage from MSNBC, Ynet and Teeksaphoto.org or learn more about the Good Water Neighbors Project.
The GWN Project is jointly funded by the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation Program.
FoEME's comprehensive review of the theoretical frameworks that guide the emerging field of environmental peacebulding and their application on the ground as evident in the Good Water Neighbors program is now available on the FoEME website. To read the full report entitled Environmental Peacebuilding Theory and Practice: A Case Study of the Good Water Neighbors Project and In Depth Analysis of the Wadi Fukin/ Tzur Hadassah Communities by Nicole Harari and Jesse Roseman click here.
This project was sponsored by the European Union Partnership for Peace Program, the USAID Conflict Management and Mitigation Program, the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Fund and the British Government's Global Opportunity Fund.
FoEME's efforts to raise awareness regarding the political, economic, environmental and security implications of climate change, which will contribute to even greater water stress in the arid region, continued as FoEME presented the findings of its paper Climate Change: A New Threat to Middle East Security, at a conference sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Ben Gurion University. To read FoEME's full climate change report, please click here.
FoEME's Climate Change Project is sponsored by the Heinrich Böll Stiftung in Tel Aviv.
For a related paper published by a group of retired U.S. military generals, under the auspices of the well-recognized U.S. based independent research institution, CNA Corporation, entitled, The Potential Role of Climate Change in Conflict in the Middle East by the Year 2030, in which FoEME's climate change research is cited, please click here.
FoEME participated in Tel Aviv's Earth Hour 2008 Event which drew an estimated 40,000 participants. Similar events, organized to raise awareness about individuals' ability to reduce energy waste and tackle climate change, will take place in major cities throughout the world. For recent press coverage from The Age and the Middle East Times, please click here.
FoEME's Pro-Aquifer project, organized in cooperation with the Palestinian House of Water and Environment held two tours of wastewater treatment facilities and reconstructed wetlands for Palestinian and Israeli Municipal technical staff and managers to demonstrate different sewage treatment and prevention methodologies.
To learn more about the Pro-Aquifer project please visit our website. To read recent press coverage related to the Pro-Aquifer project from United Press International, Reuters, Jewish Week and Al Jazeera, please click here.
The Pro-Aquifer project is jointly sponsored by the European Union's LIFE program and Green Cross France.
FoEME gave a tour of the Dead Sea's sinkholes to a delegation from the European Union Embassy's Economic Department. The tour focused on FoEME's concerns that constructing the proposed Red Sea - Dead Sea Conduit will have negative environmental impacts in the region. Further concerns were raised regarding the World Bank and the regional government's lack of will to study alternative solutions in an equally comprehensive manner, such as the rehabilitation of water flow down the Lower Jordan River.
To learn more about FoEME’s position on the controversial proposed Red Sea - Dead Sea Conduit please visit our website.
This project is sponsored by the Green Environment Fund.
This month FoEME hosted several key visits to the proposed King Abdullah I- Rotenberg Peace Park for representatives of the Blaustein Family Fund and the Jewish Funders Network. A pre-feasibility study is currently being undertaken in the area of the proposed cross border peace park with the support of the Blaustein Family Fund, the Green Cross France and the British Government's Global Opportunity Fund. To learn more about FoEME’s plans to establish a cross border Peace Park, click here.
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Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian young people in Ein Gedi. The group came together for two days to learn about their shared natural environment and hands-on techniques for reducing water pollution such as through building constructed wetlands. The young environmentalists also went for a group hike on the local GWN Neighbor's Path which highlights the shared resources and environmental threats in the Dead Sea area.
United States Agency for International Development's Deputy Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East Bureau in a visit to the partnered communities of Wadi Fukin and Tzur Hadassah this month. The visiting diplomat took a tour of the Neighbors' Path and spoke with local residents about the environmental peacemaking efforts being undertaken at the grassroots level in the two communities.
emerging field of environmental peacebulding and their application on the ground as evident in the Good Water Neighbors program is now available on the FoEME website. To read the full report entitled Environmental Peacebuilding Theory and Practice: A Case Study of the Good Water Neighbors Project and In Depth Analysis of the Wadi Fukin/ Tzur Hadassah Communities by Nicole Harari and Jesse Roseman click 
environmental and security implications of climate change, which will contribute to even greater water stress in the arid region, continued as FoEME presented the findings of its paper Climate Change: A New Threat to Middle East Security, at a conference sponsored by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Ben Gurion University. To read FoEME's full climate change report, please click 
FoEME participated in Tel Aviv's Earth Hour 2008 Event which drew an estimated 40,000 participants. Similar events, organized to raise awareness about individuals' ability to reduce energy waste and tackle climate change, will take place in major cities throughout the world. For recent press coverage from The Age and the Middle East Times, please click 
House of Water and Environment held two tours of wastewater treatment facilities and reconstructed wetlands for Palestinian and Israeli Municipal technical staff and managers to demonstrate different sewage treatment and prevention methodologies. 
European Union Embassy's Economic Department. The tour focused on FoEME's concerns that constructing the proposed Red Sea - Dead Sea Conduit will have negative environmental impacts in the region. Further concerns were raised regarding the World Bank and the regional government's lack of will to study alternative solutions in an equally comprehensive manner, such as the rehabilitation of water flow down the Lower Jordan River. 
Rotenberg Peace Park for representatives of the Blaustein Family Fund and the Jewish Funders Network. A pre-feasibility study is currently being undertaken in the area of the proposed cross border peace park with the support of the Blaustein Family Fund, the Green Cross France and the British Government's Global Opportunity Fund. To learn more about FoEME’s plans to establish a cross border Peace Park, click 
