WDW: Building the Capacity of Reflective Water Professionals

The Water Diplomacy Workshop (WDW) is an annual “train-the-trainer” event that builds the capacity of senior water managers. Through highly interactive presentations and exercises, it helps participants master important water network management tools, and gain the skills needed to teach these tools to others. The 2014 WDW is scheduled for June 23-27 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. Read about it or apply.

RCN: Bringing Together Research and Practitioner Communities

The Research Coordination Network (RCN) is a group of researchers and practitioners who will synthesize theory and practice to address complex water problems where natural, societal, and political elements cross multiple boundaries. Supported by the National Science Foundation, this global Water Diplomacy RCN explores ways to incorporate recent developments in complexity theory and negotiations, as well as advances in social networking technology, to generate actionable knowledge for adaptive water management.

Aquapedia: Gathering and Sharing Case Studies About Water

Aquapedia is a managed wiki that gathers case studies of water management and water conflict. It is meant to provide reliable, relevant, and readily available water information and wisdom from users and producers of explicit and tacit water knowledge. The potentially transformative and collaborative power of AquaPedia will, we hope, make water a flexible and expandable resource.

IGERT PhD: Preparing the Next Generation of Water Scholars

The Water Diplomacy Graduate Program at Tufts University educates doctoral students who will become the next generation of teachers and scholars of water diplomacy. Supported by the Integrated Graduate Education and Research Traineeship (IGERT) of the National Science Foundation, this degree teaches interdisciplinary water professionals to think across boundaries, integrate explicit and tacit knowledge, and link knowledge and action from multiple perspectives to help resolve water issues through mutual-gains negotiations.

 

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Presentation at Oxford Water Security Meeting

Presentation by Professor Islam at the Water Security, Risk and Society conference.

Shafiqul Islam presents at IGERT conference

Shafiqul Islam discusses water diplomacy with his peers.

Interview on 89.7 FM WGBH

Shafiqul Islam joined William Moomaw, both from Tufts, joined Lisa Sorgini Marchewka of Oasys Water in an interview for Innovation Hub on 89.7 FM WGBH in Boston.

MIT News Interview

Professor Lawrence Susskind discussed Water Diplomacy with Peter Dizikes of the MIT News Office

Water Diplomacy Book Published!

Our Water Diplomacy book is now available from Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and Routledge, the publisher. The paperback is about $35.