Published February 28, 2012

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Panel Presentation and Discussion with Professor Stuart Schoenfeld and Eric Abitbol

An IRIS Speakers’ Series Event

Environmental cooperation has been much-lauded as a force of peace in the Middle East. It has been leveraged in support of Track I peacemaking processes between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. It has also been pursued as a practice of peacebuilding, valued in terms of partnership-building, cooperation, identity-change and sustainability.

Panelists Professor Schoenfeld and Mr. Abitbol will critically examine assumptions and practices of environmental cooperation between Israel and the Palestinians, drawing on their direct experience of working with practitioners, Governments and stakeholders in the Middle East.

Date: 15 March 2012
Time: 1 pm
Location: 280 A York Lanes

About the Panelists

Stuart Schoenfeld is chair of the department of sociology, Glendon College and affiliated with the York Centre for International and Security Studies and the (York) Institute for Research on Innovation and Sustainability.  He has been publishing on transboundary environmental networks, the frustrations and promise of environmental peacebuilding, approaches to regional environmental governance, and the role of empathy in environmental peacebuilding.

Eric Abitbol is an international development, peacebuilding and dialogue researcher-practitioner specialising in hydropolitical issues with a particular interest in Israeli-Palestinian relations. A Chevening Scholar and Associate Fellow at IRIS, Abitbol is pursuing a PhD in Peace Studies (ABD) at the University of Bradford (UK), while teaching university courses at the nexus of environment and peace. As a consultant, Abitbol recently conducted the Conflict and Peace Effects Study (CPES) of the Israel-Palestinian Authority-Jordan-World Bank ‘Red Sea Dead Sea Conveyance’ initiative. Download Eric Abitbol's presentation.

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