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, A. 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. EcoPeace has devised an infrastructure for its projects that both fosters the development of a common vision for the future and realizes improvements in the environmental situation of the communities. The Good Water Neighbors project is one outstanding example of a successful effort in the field of environmental peacebuilding in the Middle East. The project aims at raising environmental awareness and developing initiatives for the improvement of the environmental situation within and between the partnering communities.
