A Middle Eastern Union?

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Perhaps the best, if not the only, way to secure peace in the Middle East is to begin managing scarce resources on a regional basis. Despite today’s chronic pessimism, the pursuit of a Middle East Water and Energy Union, coupled with adoption of the Arab Peace Initiative that was reconfirmed in 2007, could very well change mindsets that have been hardened by decades of conflict.

TOLEDO, SPAIN – This autumn, the Toledo International Centre for Peace convened a meeting devoted to water cooperation in the Middle East. One conclusion that emerged was that any effective response to the unequal distribution of natural resources in the region must be regional. With this idea in mind, Munther Haddadin, a former Jordanian minister of water resources, proposed for the Middle East a “Water and Energy Union,” a long-term mechanism to integrate a fragmented region.

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