SFG has developed the Blue Peace approach that transforms trans-boundary water into an instrument for cooperation, with collaborative and sustainable strategies, shared by riparian countries.
The Global High Level Panel on Water and Peace called for protection of water resources and infrastructure from violent conflicts and terrorist acts. In this volume, we examine the region around the Euphrates River and the possible role that it could play in finding a future solution in Syria.
The bulletin explores traditional means of conflict resolution that have been successful in resolving localised conflicts over water. Furthermore, it describes certain unresolved water related conflicts that could potentially be resolved using more local-level forms of conflict resolution.
There are a plethora of
legal instruments including the Geneva Conventions that address the issue of
protection of water resources especially during armed conflicts. However, its
implementation is relegated to the realm of domestic polices of state parties.
The protection of water resources and related infrastructure more often than
not r...
An Unprecedented Opportunity:Blue Peace in the Middle East
Around 25 experts and media persons from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey met in Stockholm on 30-31 August 2018 to discuss the transfer of the management of Blue Peace in the Middle East Initiative from Strategic Foresight Group to a cooperative regional mechanism.
Strategy Workshop on Blue Peace in the Middle East
A group of regional experts from Turkey, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Iran met in Zurich, Switzerland on 21-22 August, 2017 for a strategy workshop with a main objective of exploring the future of the Blue Peace Process and ideas for the transfer of management leadership to regional institutions. The workshop was co-hosted by Strategic For...
Roundtable on the New Architecture for the Middle East
A group of opinion makers
from Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, along with international experts, met
at the Royal Scientific Society in Amman on February 22-23, 2017 to identify
elements of a new architecture for the Middle East and to define institutional
structures underpinning it. The meeting was co-convened by the Strategic
Foresig...
SFG President Dr Sundeep Waslekar addressed the United Nations Security Council during an Open Debate on Water, Peace and Security that was organised for the first time on November 22, 2016, in New York
read more
Strategic Foresight Group, along with the Government of Switzerland, has created the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace. The Global High-Level Panel is expected to propose a global architecture for water and peace, including prevention and resolution of water-related conflicts and the use of water as an instrument of peace and sec...
read more
Strategic Foresight
Group has created the first ever barometer for measuring the quantity and
quality of trans-boundary water cooperation and its relationship with the risk
of war. The Water Cooperation Quotient is a tool for the countries sharing a
fresh water resource to advance in their cooperation to such an extent that it
contributes...
read more
In January
2008, SFG published a report titled Global Security and Economy, which
identified 20 issues that would impact the world from 2011-2020. Ilmas Futehally re-read the report recently
and found that most the issues that we had identified did indeed play a
significant role in the last decade.
read more
The shore of Atlantic Ocean at Estoril is quiet. In May
2018, Frank-Jurgen Richter chose it for debating the most unquiet question
facing the world over dinner with former Heads of States and Governments. Is
humankind actualizing its unlimited potential or is it heading towards complete
annihilation?
read more