NEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

News 

• October 14, 2021 WPS Global Early Warning Tool - September 2021 Quarterly Update
• July 19, 2021 WPS Global Early Warning Tool - June 2021 Quarterly Update
• April 6, 2021 WPS Global Early Warning Tool - March 2021 Quarterly Update
• January 25, 2021 WPS Global Early Warning Tool - December 2020 Quarterly Update
• October 27, 2020 WPS Global Early Warning Tool - September 2020 Quarterly Update
• July 10, 2020 New Report and Webtoool Provide Insights into Iraq's Looming Water Crisis: IOM and Deltares
• June 23, 2020 WPS Global Early Warning Tool - June 2020 Quarterly Update
• May 27, 2020 Water, Peace and Security Partnership awarded Luxembourg Peace Prize in the Environment Category
• December 12, 2019 Water, Peace and Security Launch: Significant Risk of Water-related Conflict in parts of Iraq, Iran, Mali, Nigeria, India, and Pakistan over the next 12 Months

Publications

• Conflicts over water and water infrastructure at the Tajik-Kyrgyz border. A looming threat for Central Asia? Report by Aigul Arynova and Susanne Schmeier with contributions from Charles Iceland, Liz Saccoccia, Claire Michailovsky and Gennadii Donchyts. 

  The Impact of Covid-19 in Water-Stressed Iraq: How Covid-19 is exacerbating Iraq’s Health, Economic, Socio-political and Security Challenges Working Paper By Dorith Kool, Laura Birkman & Giorgio Berti

• Water for Peace: How to make climate action conflict sensitive Policy brief by Karen Meijer, Rolien Sasse, Judith Blaauw, and Susanne Schmeier
• Ending Conflicts over Water: Solutions to Water and Security Challenges Publication by Peter Gleick, Charles Iceland, and Ayushi Trivedi
• Interprovincial Water Challenges in Iraq Working paper by Dorith Kool, Laura Birkman, and Bianca Torossian with contributions from Juliette Schaffrath, Rolien Sasse, and Susanne Schmeier
• Leveraging Water Data in a Machine Learning–Based Model for Forecasting Violent Conflict Technical note by Samantha Kuzma, Peter Kerins, Liz Saccoccia, Cayla Whiteside, Hannes Roos and Charles Iceland
• Are water and conflict linked and what actually links them? Opinion piece by Susanne Schmeier, Chris Baker, Judith Blauw, Charles Iceland, Karen Meijer, and Rolien Sasse
• Water, Peace and Security: Challenges for Central Mali Policy brief by Joyce Kortlandt, based upon contributions from Mori Diallo, Ibrahima Sadio Fofana, Mamadou Lamine Diawara, Beteo Zongo, Boubacar Ba and International Alert Mali, with advice from Camille Marquette and Karounga Keïta.

Blogs

• Mitigating Water-related Security Risks: The Need for Informed and Inclusive Water Resources Investments By Rolien Sasse and Karen Meijer
• Water and (In-)Security in Afghanistan as the Taliban Take Over By WPS Team
• Drought and Water Mismanagement have Brought Iran's Water Crisis to a Boil and Threaten both National and Regional Security By Susanne Schmeier, Charles Iceland, and Liz Saccoccia
• Turkey's Drought By Charles Iceland, Claire Michailovsky, Gennadii Donchyts, Liz Saccoccia
• Water for Peace: Preventing Conflict Related to Water and Wetlands By Joyce Kortlandt, Julia Karlysheva, Mara Tignino, and Caroline Pellaton
• The Coronavirus Pandemic Will Impact Global Security - The Water, Peace and Security Partnership can help address these threats By Susanne Schmeier, Charles Iceland and Liz Saccoccia, with contributions from Karen Meijer, Camille Marquette, Alberto Pallecchi, and Laura Birkman
• We Predicted Where Violent Conflicts Will Occur in 2020. Water Is Often a Factor By Charles Iceland
• Water and Conflict – an Unavoidable Link? By Susanne Schmeier, Emilie Broek, Rolien Sasse, Charles Iceland, Rozemarijn ter Horst, Karin Meijer.

Podcasts

• Solving Water-related Conflict | Big Ideas into Action Podcast By Nicholas Walton with Charles Iceland, Ayushi Trivedi, Kitty van der Heijden, Alberto Pallecchi, Dominick de Waal, and Aseel Naamani
• Water for Peace: Relationship between Water Security and Fragility By Dominick de Waal
• Water for Peace: Role of Programming in Dealing with Water Insecurity and Fragility Issues By Karounga Keita
• Water for Peace: Colaborating on Water Insecurity By Danilo Turk
• Water for Peace: Lebanon and Conflict Prevention By Aseel Naamani

Webinars and Videos

• Building a transatlantic coalition for climate action on water and security challenges Video highlights of the 11th meeting of The Hague Roundtable on Climate & Security on April 22nd 2021.

• Climate Adaptation Summit 2021: Water, Peace, Security and Adaptation

• Ending Conflicts Over Water: Solutions to Water and Security Challenges By Kitty van der Heijden, Charles Iceland, Peter Gleick, Ayushi Trivedi, Chris Baker, and Susanne Schmeier

Media Mentions

• BBC: How water shortages are brewing wars
• The Guardian: Water wars: early warning tool uses climate data to predict conflict hotspots
• Vice: This Map Shows You Where Violence Could Break Out Because There's Not Enough Water
• Slate.FR: Un outil pour prédire l'emplacement des futurs conflits liés à l'eau
• Reuters: New app predicts water-related conflict up to year in advance
• ecdpm Great Insights: Water Scarcity and Conflict: Not such a straight-forward link