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Marwa Daoudy

CSEN Expert

Marwa Daoudy is Associate Professor of International Relations at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS), the Seif Ghobash Chair in Arab Studies at the Center for Contemporary Arab Studies (CCAS) and a member of the Climate Security Expert Network. Dr. Daoudy’s research and teaching focus on Critical Security Studies, Climate Change and Environmental Politics, International Relations, Negotiation and Mediation theory, Water conflicts and Middle East politics. Her second book is titled The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security (CUP, 2020). Her first book The Water Divide between Syria, Turkey and Iraq: Negotiation, Security and Power Asymmetry (CNRS Editions, 2005) received the Ernest Lémonon Prize by the Institute of France at the French Academy (Académie Française). Amongst her other publications feature an article on ‘Water Weaponization in the Syrian Conflict: Strategies of Domination and Cooperation’ (International Affairs, 2020) and a report titled ‘Syria’s Human Security is Inseparable from Its Environmental Health’ (The Century Foundation, 2020). In parallel to her academic work, she collaborates as policy advisor and consultant for government agencies, non-governmental and multilateral organizations as well as the private sector. Dr. Daoudy has collaborated with the UNESCO-World Water Assessment Program (WWAP) and advised the United Nations Development Program (UNDP, Jerusalem) on the Middle East peace and water negotiations.