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Conference on Access to Water: Global Crisis, Local Crises? – 31 January 2007

The GIAN project "Negotiating Conflicts of Interest Related to Water Management", coordinated by Professor Ronald Jaubert of the GIDS, will be discussed on 31 January 2007 at Uni-Mail.

The conference (in French) "Access to Water: Global Crisis, Local Crises?" constitutes the inaugural session of a conference cycle on water organised by the Swiss Association for a Global Water Treaty ( ACME-Suisse ). The conference takes place at 7:30 pm, Wednesday 31 January in the auditorium R 070 of UNI-Mail.

Panellists

• Jean Fabre, Deputy Director,
European Office of the United Nations Development Programme, Geneva;
• Ronald Jaubert, Professor,
Graduate Institute of Development Studies, Geneva,
Faculty of Geosciences and Environment, University of Lausanne;
• Carlo Sommaruga, Lawyer,
Member of the Swiss National Council,
Co-Vice-president of ACME-Suisse.

Consult also the publications (in French only) from this project supported by the GIAN.

" Water - Conflicts of Interest in Regions of Scarcity "
" Populations, Exploitation and Resource Control in Northern Syria "

For more details, please contact the Secretariat of ACME, tel.: 022 340 35 03, e-mail: secretariat@acme-suisse.ch .

Related Project(s)

Annual Call for Projects 2001 Negotiating Conflicts of Interest Related to Water Management

>See the Project

Related Output(s)

Water - Conflicts of Interest in Regions of Scarcity
(available in French only)
> more
Populations, Exploitation and Resource Control in Northern Syria
(available in French only)
> more