Middle East and North AfricaConflict Mitigation and Peacebuilding Changing Power, Changing Tides: Conflicts over Water in the Nile Basin WATCH: The Nile basin features significant conflict over access and rights to the Nile water resources among its eleven riparian countries.
Middle East and North AfricaLand and Food Climate Change and the Syrian Civil War (ECC Factbook Conflict Analysis) WATCH: The direct causes of the civil war in Syria relate to popular discontent with the government. Yet the mishandling of a major drought in the preceding...