Origins : conceptualization, implementation, and evolution of an interdisciplinary graduate program on water diplomacy / Shafiqul Islam, Kent Portney, Michael Reed, Timothy Griffin, and William Moomaw -- Making distinctions : the importance of recognizing complexity in coupled natural and human...

Water Conflicts applies cutting-edge thinking to identify pathways that can transform complex water conflicts. It challenges existing power-blind and politics-lite analysis that is very deeply-held and recurring in debates that suggest causal links between scarcity and violence-or peace. This...

In the Middle East and North Africa, food security and water security are tightly entwined. In particular, choices about the extent to which food security policies rely on trade rather than domestically produced staples have stark consequences for the region's limited water resources. This paper...