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BUILDING BRIDGES OF CONFIDENCE Through Technical Dialogue - Final Report

Middle East and North Africa - Regional initiative for dryland management. International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA) - June 2007 - ICARDA-FAO-WORLD BANK

Year of publication 2007

Pages 121

Author Investment Centre Division

Product type Book (stand-alone)

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The “Regional Initiative for Dryland Management” was designed to bring together technical experts from Israel and Arab countries in an attempt to build bridges of confidence among conflicting parties, bridges that would eventually facilitate rapprochement and ultimately peace. On the other hand, technical dialogue cannot – by definition – achieve peace, given that peace negotiations are conducted by political representatives, diplomatic experts, and social groups. How then does one measu re the result of this program? – The Initiative’s objective was simple: bringing technical experts together to discuss technical issues of mutual interest, in this case dryland management and desertification. And the Initiative did bring together Arab and Israeli technical experts throughout the entire lifetime of the program: a remarkable achievement in light of the ups and downs of the peace process.

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