ABSTRACT
Environmental issues and the mutual ecological dependence across territorial borders facilitate and encourage cooperation, cooperation that often is a first step toward the initiation of an ongoing dialogue, which would be difficult to mediate through political channels. In the area of Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority different approaches and efforts are taken by different organizations in the field of environmental peacebuilding. Education and the creation of cooperative knowledge on common environmental threats play a central role in the design of every project. The Good Water Neighbors (GWN) project was established in 2001 working until 2005 with 11 Israeli, Palestinian and Jordanian Communities, expanding in the present Phase II, 2005–2008, to 17 communities. The project aims at raising environmental awareness and developing initiatives for the improvement of the environmental situation within and between the partnering communities. In general all the field staffs agree that the GWN project has led to a better understanding of environmental problems within his/her community.
