Improving Regional Cooperation on Water Meeting Report of the Third Session of the Parliamentarians Network for Conflict Prevention and Human Security

Water security is fundamental to human security, which is a feature of composite security. Threats to our security are interconnected and must be met with collective action at both regional and global levels. Water must be conceived of as a right and not a commodity if we are to bring about equitable distribution and ensure access to this most basic necessity of life. It is only then that we may transcend the conflict-driven mode, and move

through the negotiating phase to a conceptual approach in the spirit of supra-national innovation and inter-dependence.

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News type	Inbrief
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File link local	Improving regional cooperation on water.pdf (PDF, 325 Kb)
Source of information	EastWest Institute & Parliaments Network for conflict Prevention and Human Security
Keyword(s)	water security
Subject(s)	POLICY-WATER POLICY AND WATER MANAGEMENT
Relation	http://www.semide.net/thematicdirs/events/convening-parliamentarians-network-conflict
Geographical coverage	International
News date	29/04/2010
Working language(s)	ENGLISH

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