Water Conflict Prevention
Program Description
Green Cross works to prevent conflicts in water-stressed regions. We
promote informed and participatory decision-making, regional cooperation
and the integrated management of land and water resources at the basin
level. Green Cross contributes to the prevention and resolution of actual
and potential conflicts by convening people representing all sectors of
affected communities to shape solutions together. We aim to actively avoid
and mitigate conflicts in water-stressed regions by encouraging the participatory
integrated management of basins at the local, national and international
levels. Green Cross promotes the need for international mediation to prevent
and resolve water related conflicts, the need for an international fund
for water, to be used particularly in times of emergency, and the recognition
that a basic entitlement to safe water is a universal human right.
Current activities include our integrated Water Emergency Plan for the
Middle East, the Fight Against Desertification in Burkina Faso and Cote
d'Ivoire, a drinking water project in Swaziland, mediation between communities
effected by large dams in Argentina and Paraguay, and active involvement
in the World Water Council, Global Water Partnership and Gender and Water
Alliance.
Green Cross International was a major contributor to the World Water Vision
for the 21st Century and 2nd World Water Forum in the Hague in March 2000,
and is active and committed to the continuing "Framework for Action"
process. Regional projects are already being developed in West and Southern
Africa, South America and Eastern Europe.
Programme Coordinator
Green Cross International at the 3rd World Water
Forum
GCI at the 3rd World Water Forum
(word)
March 21, 2003
Statement to Ministerial Conference
- Key Issues
March 22, 2003
Statement to Ministerial Conference,
Kyoto, Mikhail Gorbachev, GCI President
March 20, 2003
3rd World Water Forum GCI Press
Release
Water Clock
- Countdown to the Millennium Water Goals
Water is essential to life. Water is a human right. Sanitation provides
people
with health and dignity. But today billions of people around the world
lack
access to safe drinking water and/or basic sanitation. As the global
population
and demand for water are ever increasing, and water resources further
stretched beyond their finite limits – this crisis needs to be
urgently addressed.
GCI
Special Newsletter for the 3rd WWF
GCI and UNESCO - Two day discussion: Download
the Final Programme of the Water for Peace Sessions at the 3rd World
Water Forum (pdf file)
March 20, 2003
Water For Peace - Opening Plenary Session
March 20, 2003
Highlights
from Friday, 20 March, 2003
March 20, 2003
From Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential: Water for Peace –
Upstream-down-stream Perspectives ---> Session
Report
March 20, 2003
Session Report - From Potential Conflict to Cooperation Potential: Water
for Peace – Tools for Resolution and Prevention of Conflicts --->
Session Report
Download the Recommendations
from the Water for Peace Sessions (pdf)
April 1, 2003
Water
Forum Failed to Ensure Water for Peace
3rd World Water Forum, Kyoto Japan - Official
website
Water for Peace
Executive Summary
Water for Peace brochure
produced for the occasion of the Forum: “PCCP: Water for Peace
– Prevention and Resolution of Water Related Conflicts”
– Actions and Recommendations
Water for Peace in the Volta River Basin
(pdf)
Water for Peace in the Okavango River
Basin (pdf)
Water for Peace in the Jordan River Basin (pdf)
Water for Peace in the La Plata River Basin (pdf)
Water for Peace in the Danube River Basin: The Role of Territorial Authorities
(pdf)
Romanian Declaration
on the Role of Territorial Authorities (word)
Water for Peace in the Volga River Basin
(pdf)
UNESCO's PCCP Programme
The World Water Council,
where one can download the Camdessus Report
The International Secretariat
for Water
National Sovereignty and International Watercourses (pdf)
Water for Peace
in the Middle East and Southern Africa (pdf)
The World Assembly of Water
Wisdom:“Citizens’ Commitment to the Right to Water”
(pdf)
Press Release on the “Citizens’
Commitment” (pdf)
Background information
on the World Assembly of Water Wisdom
World Assembly of Water Wisdom Photo Gallery from the 3rd World Water
Forum (coming soon)
GCI-chaired session of the Virtual Water Forum. Join the debate at
www.worldwaterforum.org
Water Emergency Plan for the Middle East
International Watercourses - Cooperation not Conflict
- Water and Climate Change: Assessment
and Recommendations for the COP 7 Participants - December 2001
- The Global Water Crisis
- - Water: the Key issue of the 21st
Century, by Mikhail Gorbachev & Shimon Peres, May 2000
- National Sovereignty
and International Watercourses -
Full version (pdf)
- Statement and Proposals, Sovereignty Panel
English
- French - German
- Russian - Spanish
To order the book, e-mail
- - Transboundary Impacts of Large Dams: Conflict
Prevention Strategies, July 2000
- Water Wars: Enduring Myth of Impending Reality?,
June 2000
- 2nd World Water Forum and
Ministerial Conference
- GCI Contribution
- Middle East
- Southern Africa
- Sovereignty
- - Statement by Former Prime
Minister of Sweden, Ingvar Carlsson,
at the Sovereignty Panel session.
- - Speech of Former President
Fidel Valdez Ramos of the Republic
of the Philippines at the Sovereignty Panel Session
- - High
and Dry: Water, focus of the recent World Water Forum, will be
a critical issue this century. Tim Radford - The Guardian
- - Water for
Peace in the Middle East and Southern Africa (pdf)
- - Southern African Water
Conflict Prevention Conference, 24 February 2000 - Agenda
To order the book, e-mail
- - Green Cross Burkina Faso : Active involvment in the World Water
Vision's West Africa technical advisory Committee, helping to bring
stakeholders together around action-orientated programmes.
- - Green Cross Burkina Faso Presentation
to the Gender Mainstreaming Session at the World Water Forum, Fatoumata
Diallo
- - Green Cross Burkina Faso Presentation
to the NGO Water and Poverty Session at the World Water Forum, Seydou
Zone
- - 9th Stockholm Water
Symposium,9-12 August, 1999
- Former World
Leaders call for Water for Peace
- Gender and Water Alliance
- Facing International Freshwater
Conflict : Common Issues and Strategies in three Regions of the World,
Los Angeles, 17 October 1997
- International Freshwater as a source of Conflict, Geneva, Roundtable
chaired by M. Gorbachev, June 1997 - Agenda,
Participants, Comments
Proceedings
of the Roundtable: "Water and International Solidarity :
specifying the Niche for Green Cross.
- Green Cross National Organizations
- Water Projects
- International Freshwater Conflict:
Issues and Prevention Strategies, 1997
The Fight Against Desertification
Tree Planting in Burkina Faso. - We contribute to the solution
of critical problems by convening people representing all sectors of
affected communities to shape solutions together. Green Cross Burkina
Faso, in conjunction with GC Japan and GC Switzerland, strives to combat
desertification through community tree-planting and education programmes.
Upcoming and Recent Water Events
- March 16-23, 2003
3th World Water Forum, Kyoto Japan
Official
website
- Year 2003
International Year of Freshwater
Official
web site
- November 28, 2002
United Nations: Access to water enshrined as a human right
- November 27, 2002
Adoption
of the Human Right to Water
- November 20-22, 2002
Green Cross and UNESCO to hold International Conference on Water Cooperation,
Delft, The Netherlands;
This conference will be held at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water
Education, in Delft, Netherlands. It is organized by IHP, MOST, and
GCI, to reflect on the results of the World Summit on Sustainable
Development (WSSD), and to introduce the first results of PC CP: Water
for Peace. The third circular and call for paper is now available.
Information and Registration
- To register on line: click
here
- September 03, 2002
During WSSD, UNESCO and Green Cross will hold a side event on the
3rd of September, the Water and Globalization Day. Experts and stakeholders
involved in the project in all five continents will have the opportunity
to share their experiences and address the crucial questions related
to the sharing of water resources. Information
- April 01, 2002
UNESCO and Green Cross International are pleased to invite to a side
event on
"Water: Crisis or Opportunities? The choice is yours" -
More information here
- March 22, 2002
World Water Day - World
Security Depends on Averting Water Wars
Journée Mondiale de l'Eau: Green Cross lance son projet "Eau
pour la Paix" et une pétition pour une convention cadre
internationale de l'eau. Lire
le document
On the World Water Day at Budapest, the participants of the "International
Conference on the Water and Environment Protection in the Carpathian
Basin” agreed unanimously to join to the appeal received from
Green Cross International for supporting the adaptation of a World
Water Framework Convention.
- March
2002
Support the adoption of
Petition
Information - Sign
the petition online
- March 2002
Gender and Water Alliance launch a new website at www.waterandgenderalliance.org
- December 2001
UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura and Mikhail Gorbachev,
President of the non-governmental environmental organisation Green
Cross International (GCI), today signed a two-year agreement at UNESCO
Headquarters aimed at joining forces to help to avert potential conflicts
over the world's water resources.
press release
- International Conference on Freshwater, Bonn, December 03-07, 2001.
www.water-2001.de
- World Water Day - March 22, 2001 Water and Health
Press
Release - More Information-
Message
of Kofi Annan
- Sustainable Development of Water Resources, International Conference
in New Delhi, India, November 27-30, 2000
Delhi declaration
- World Commission on Dams Report Launching,
London, November 16, 2000
- Former
Soviet leader thinks green
Mikhail Gorbachev takes lead role in debate over the world's water
supply
By Mitch Potter - Toronto Star
European Bureau - March 2000
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