WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY & RESEARCH

Join us for our teach-in on Water Justice in Palestine at WUR, co-hosted with @otherwise_wageningen, University of Amsterdam, and IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education, Wageningen University

When: 29th May, 12.30 PM

Where: Orion Room C1005

This panel-discussion focuses on how colonialism and structural imbalances of power have shaped water governance in Palestine. Guided by researchers and practitioners who are from, or worked in, Palestine, we aim to understand what the current water governance systems look like, and how systemic injustices are created and maintained. The session focuses in particular on land grabbing and access to water, the institutionalization of imbalances of power and the role of securitization on water management, and the role of the international community (including researchers) in maintaining, strengthening and challenging these structures.

The questions that guide the teach-in are:

How has coloniality shaped access to water and water governance in Palestine?
What is the impact on human rights, but also on the environment?
What is the role of development aid & international cooperation in maintaining, strengthening and challenging these structures of coloniality?
What does this mean for water professionals (local and international) who engage in challenging these power imbalances?

Speakers:
Muna Dajani - Fellow in Environment at the Geography and Environment Department, London School of Economics
Lamis Q’demat Climate and Water Diplomacy Professional, Alumna of IHE Delft
Margreet Zwarteveen (Moderator) – Professor of Water Governance, IHE Delft

Livestream provided (link will be shared later).
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TU DELFT

30 May 2024

Start time14:00 - GMT+02:00 (Europe/Amsterdam)

Location IHE Delft, Room B3

This teach-in discusses how colonialism and structural imbalances of power have shaped water governance in Palestine. Guided by researchers and practitioners who are from, or worked in Palestine, we aim to understand what the current water governance systems look like, and how systemic injustices are created and maintained. The session focuses in particular on land grabbing and access to water, the institutionalization of imbalances of power and the role of securitization on water management, and the role of the international community (including researchers) in maintaining, strengthening and challenging these structures.

The questions that guide the teach-in are:
How has coloniality shaped access to water and water governance in Palestine?
What is the impact on human rights, but also on the environment?
What is the role of development aid & international cooperation in maintaining, strengthening and challenging these structures of coloniality?
What does this mean for water professionals (local and international) who engage in challenging these power imbalances?

Speakers:

Muna Dajani, Fellow in Environment at the Geography and Environment Department, London School of Economics

Lamis Q’demat, Climate and Water Diplomacy Professional, IHE Delft alumna

Michelle Rudolph, Water engineer, researcher and visual designer, HKV; International Institute of Social Studies, The Hague 

Moderator: Margreet Zwarteveen, Professor of Water Governance, IHE Delft and University of Amsterdam 

Spaces are limited: secure your spot by registering via the link! 

UvA

Teach-in Series organized by Erella Grassiani, Mikki Stelder, Sinin Nakhle, Chiara de Cesari, Sudeep Dasgupta, Yolande Jansen, Jamil Fiorino-Habib.

Confused about what is happening in Israel and the Palestinian Territories? Want to learn more? Join academics and other experts for the teach-in “History is Not Context, It’s Reality” – On Israel/Palestine. An interactive lecture series about the political and social reality in the region and how we got here.

31 May, 13.30 - 15.30, REC A.207 (Roeterseiland) 

Water Justice in Palestine 

Speakers: 
Muna Dajani (London School of Economics)
Lamis Qdemat (Founder, Water Heroes and activist, Palestine)

Moderator: Margreet van Zwarteveen  (Professor of Water Governance, UvA and UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft) 

This teach-in will raise awareness about the historical weaponisation of water by the Israeli state against the people of Palestine. Water injustice plays a longstanding role in settler colonial violence in Israel/Palestine. What is the impact of the devastation of Gaza's water and sanitation systems, the damage to agricultural land, the pollution of its groundwater and the blocking of water and food supplies? And what are the strategies and indigenous knowledge systems developed by Palestinians over decades of occupation?

This event is organised in collaboration with IHE Delft Institute for Water Education and Wageningen University.