Green Blue Deal for the Middle East wins Council of Europe Democracy Innovation Award
During the closing session of 9th World Forum for Democracy, the Council of Europe announced that the laureate of its Innovation in Democracy Award 2021 was the Green Blue Deal for the Middle East, an initiative of EcoPeace Middle East which brings together Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian environmentalists.
EcoPeace Middle East was founded in 1994 to advance sustainable regional development and conditions for peace by promoting cooperation, across conflict lines, around shared environmental challenges, in particular the need for water.
Three initiatives out of the thirty discussed at the Forum were shortlisted for the final vote:
- XR GS Participative Democracy (Germany) – presented at the workshop “Better Many Heads Than One: Citizen Assemblies on Climate”;
- Burren Program (Ireland) – presented at the workshop “Better Together: Engaging Communities for Nature Conservation and Protection”;
- A Green Blue Deal for the Middle East, Israel, Palestine, Jordan – presented at the workshop “Scarcity and Sources of Conflict: Managing Natural Resources to Prevent Conflict”.
The Forum brought together 300 participants in Strasbourg from 38 countries around the world to answer the question “Can democracy save the environment?” ». *
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