Forum Highlights Opportunities to Resolve Water Conflicts Peacefully
Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service reports a recent forum, co-sponsored by Catholic Relief Services and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, highlighted a new CRS publication, "Water and Conflict: Incorporating Peacebuilding into Water Development." Read the PDF here.
Speaking with William Hall, an adjunct professor in the conflict resolution studies program at Georgetown University in Washington Pattison recounts,
Hall suggested using environmental conflict resolution to mediate among parties before a crisis erupts into something bigger and harder to contain, adding that it has shown success in 61 percent to 91 percent of the disputes where it has been applied -- not only for water but other environmental issues as well.
What do you think, does ECR have a 61 percent to 91 percent success rate?
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Often times what brings deadlocked parties to conflict resolution in the first place is a lack of trust. But trust-building in isolation does not always resolve intractable 70-562 disputes. True, solutions can be found to conflicts that do not depend upon the restoration of trust, or that necessarily restore any trust 70-563 between the parties-- in some cases, that may be adequate. Sometimes solutions need to have progressive trust-building elements integrated into them, such as the old "trust but verify" adage from the 1980s.70-564 Considering the centrality of trust to multiparty dispute resolution, and the complexity of the topic, it definitely deserves greater 70-565 attention from the EPP/ECR field.