University of Geneva Conference "Transboundary Water Resources: Current Issues", 7 July 2011

The Faculty of Law of the University of Geneva (Platform for International Water Law; www.unige.ch/droit/eau) has the pleasure to invite you to an event on “Transboundary Water Resources: Current Issues”, taking place at UniMail on Thursday 7 July.

We would be grateful if you could indicate your participation in advance to christina.leb@unige.ch

Transboundary Water Resources: Current Issues
Thursday, 7 July 2011
Location: Room 1170 – Law Faculty, University of Geneva – Uni MAIL – 40, Boulevard du Pont d’Arve, 1205 Geneva – (Stop: Uni MAIL - Tram 15)
 
 
AGENDA

15:00 – 18:00

Chair:            Laurence Boisson de Chazournes, Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva; Director, Platform for International Water Law, and Stephen McCaffrey, Professor, McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific; Former Special Rapporteur on the law of the non-navigational uses of international watercourses, International Law Commission
 
Actuality in groundwater law:
-       The Genevois Aquifer – Gabriel de los Cobos, Department of Security, Police and Environment, Canton of Geneva
-       The Guaraní Aquifer – Lilian del Castillo-Laborde, Professor, School of Law, University of Buenos Aires
 
Resource management in water scarce regions:
-       Transboundary water resources in the Middle East – François Münger, Head, Water Initiatives Division, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, and Johan Gély, Program Manager, Water Initiatives Division, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation
 
16:15 – 16:30 COFFEE BREAK
 
-       The Senegal Basin – Makane Moïse Mbengue, Lecturer, Platform for International Water Law, School of Law, University of Geneva
-       The Lake Chad Basin – Amidou Garane, Lecturer, University of Ouagadougou
 
Water treaties and their contribution to regional stability:
-       India and Pakistan’s truculent cooperation: Is 50 years enough?– Undala Alam, Lecturer, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast
-       Secession and succession in transboundary river basins – Christina Leb and Mara Tignino, Research Fellows, Platform for International Water Law, Faculty of Law, University of Geneva
-       Lessons Learned with International Waters Governance in the Columbia River Basin – Richard Paisley, Director, Global Transboundary International Waters Governance Initiative, University of British Columbia