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Actions for a Lasting Peace: Lessons from Syria
Sustainable Development Goal 16 calls for peaceful and inclusive societies. Peace is at the center of sustainable development, and yet we have more than a dozen serious conflicts around the planet today. What can we do to achieve lasting peace? This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.
Case study: Orontes River
This case study discusses the negotiation process on the Orontes River, which is shared by Lebanon, Syria
Case Study: Climate Change Dimensions of the Arab Spring
of social conflicts into violent conflict across North African and the Middle East, particularly in Syria
Teleconnections and Inconvenient Feedbacks
hyperconnected and interdependent world, and examples are given, including the civil war and drought in Syria
Recent History of Climate Change
Droughts lead to crop failures, which causes tremendous suffering and conflict like that which was seen in Syria
Middle Ages and Early Modern: Evolution of Mediterranean Diet
Leguminous vegetables like peas, lentils, chick peas, and oils produced in Syria and Palestine are made
Conversation with Norman Solomon, War Made Invisible
that promote America’s disastrous “wars of choice” – including the US-led wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria
From the MDGs to the SDGs
This lecture tells the story of the Millennium Development Goals and their evolution into the Sustainable Development Goals, highlighting key conferences and events that led to the development of the SDGs. This video is not available under a Creative Commons license and should not be considered open content. …
Social Fragility, Conflict, and Mitigation
This chapter discusses how water and climate change are becoming drivers for social fragility, for conflict and for human migration.
Case Study: Middle East
This chapter looks at transboundary water rights in the case of the Middle East. This video is licensed under the CC BY-NC-SA license.