SWEDISH ENVIRONMENTAL PRIZE FOR IMPORTANT WATER WORK The Edberg Foundation in Sweden has decided to award its annual Edberg Award to Fadia Daibes-Murad for her work with water related issues in Palestine and the Middle East. Fadia Daibes-Murad will receive her award at a ceremony in Sweden on February 1, 2005. In its decision to award Fadia Daibes-Murad the Award the board of the Edberg Foundation writes: “The Edberg Foundation has decided to award Ms Fadia Daibes, Palestine, for her work with water related issues in the Middle East, with special emphasis on environmental, social and legal implications of access to limited water resources in the Middle East in general and in Palestine in particular. On a scientific and practical platform Fadia Daibes has shown that there are possible solutions using peaceful means to achieve transboundary goals in a problem stricken region. Her work to build and operate a sustainable Palestinian Water Authority Institution, and find solutions based on international law and praxis, could become a model to be followed on other political levels to reach a sustainable development and peaceful co-existence between the people of the Middle East.” Fadia Daibes holds a Masters of Science degree in Water Resources with specialization Ground Water. In addition, she holds a PhD on the 'Application of international water law on transboundary groundwater' at International Water Law Institute in Dundee University (UK). She has several years of working experience in water research, and planning, six years of working experience in institutional policy and strategy in the water sector including capacity building and training. For six years held the position of the Deputy Director for the Norwegian Programme "Development in the Water Sector in Palestine", to build and operate a sustainable Palestinian Water Authority Institution. She has been a trainer in universities and schools on institutional legal and policy related subjects. She was recently the team leader with the University of Dundee (International Water Law Research Institute) in one of their leading Knowledge and Research projects that is funded by DFID on international water law. In addition, she worked as an Institutional and water policy consultant for a private British company (Environmental Resources Management-London) on their projects in the West Bank. More about the Edberg Foundation: The Edberg Foundation was established in 1990 in the name and spirit of Rolf Edberg. Rolf Edberg, as an author, philosopher and environmental advocate gave a voice to those people who are struck the hardest by the environmental situation in the world. His words have the ability to inspire works on both the local and the global level, by individuals as well as groups. Rolf Edberg died a few years ago, 85 years old. He was a prominent Swedish politician and was, among many other things, an active participant in the formation of the United Nations and council of Europe after the Second World War. He was a true internationalist working for peaceful solutions to political and other problems, and it was his initiative that led to the organization of the first UN conference on the environment in Stockholm in 1972. Rolf Edberg had an interdisciplinary viewpoint, where establishing democratic rights went side by side with active environmental projects in the effort to minimize environmental problems of the earth. Depletion of resources leads to deterioration of both nature and the living conditions of human beings. The industrialized world contributes to a disproportionately large fraction of the exploitation, while the developing nations suffers the greater share of the environmental burden. The Foundation's mission is to encourage environmental achievements and efforts. Every year a major national and international environmental seminar is held in the city of Karlstad in Sweden. This year’s programme deals with peaceful solutions to transboundary environmental problems (and environment defined broadly within parameters of sustainable development).
- Access to clean water is the most underestimated issues in the Middle East, says Ingvar Carlsson, Honorary Chairman of the Edberg Foundation and former Prime Minister of Sweden and he continues,
Bo Landin, Secretary General The Edberg Foundation, underscores the value of the work the award recipient Fadia Daibes has done. Read More...
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