Episode 9: From Scarcity to Stability: Water's Role in Afghanistan's Peacebuilding
How can water as source of conflict be transformed into a motor for peace? What legal frameworks and strategies are necessary to drive these attempts forward? And why is it vital to include gender-specific perspectives?
We discuss these questions with Dr. Sima Samar. Based on her insights from Afghanistan, she stresses the challenges in implementing the human right to water and the impact of weaponizing water. She shares her experience with community centered approaches fostering cooperation instead of conflict over scare water resources in this new Trend Observatory podcast episode.
Dr. Sima Samar is a pioneering human rights advocate. She was the first Minister for Women's Affairs in Afghanistan and chairperson of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission. Nowadays she is a Visiting Scholar at Fletcher School at Tufts University.
Also, don’t miss our other podcast episode with Dr. Beatrice Mosello “The Power of Water: Weaponization vs. Peacebuilding” here.
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