Pardee Center Co-sponsors Water Diplomacy Workshop

The Frederick S. Pardee Center for the Study of the Longer-Range Future was one amongst a number of co-sponsors of a unique, train-the-trainers workshop on water diplomacy held at Tufts University in Boston from June 13 – 17, 2011. The workshop was organized by Tufts University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

The Water Diplomacy Workshop (WDW) was a highly interactive, five-day, joint learning experience that enabled participants to master important network management tools and gain the skills required to teach these tools to others. It combined the growing body of scientific knowledge of water with the negotiation instruction methodologies developed by the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School. Interactive lectures, problem-solving clinics, and role-play simulations were used to help participants master the techniques and strategies presented in the Water Diplomacy Workbook. The workshop was conducted by Prof. Shafiqul Islam from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and Prof. Lawrence Susskind from Harvard Law School and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Pardee Summer Fellow, Jonars Spielberg, attended the workshop as part of his research at the Pardee Center. His work at the Pardee Center will focus on strategies for providing clean water and sanitation to Asia’s burgeoning urban slums.