Situating water in peacebuilding: revisiting the Middle East peace process

Water International

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 10-22

  Aggestam, Karin ^a   Sundell Eklund, Anna ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

hydropolitics; Israel; Jordan River basin; liberal peacebuilding; negotiation; Palestinians; peace

Indexed keywords

EID: 84890571237     PISSN: 02508060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02508060.2013.848313     Document Type: Article

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