The Nile River Basin in Crisis Webinar Series
Water Sharing and Transboundary Conflict or Cooperation
By UCLA Samueli School of Engineering | UCLA African Studies Center
Wednesday October 13 (7:00 – 8:30 a.m. PDT)
(7:00–7:10)
Welcome & Introductions — Mekonnen Gebremichael and Edmond Keller (organizers)
Mekonnen Gebremichael, Ph.D., Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
Edmond Keller, Ph.D., Professor of Political Science, UCLA
(7:10–7:15)
Opening Remarks — Andrew Apter and Jayathi Murthy
Andrew Apter, Ph.D., Director of the James S. Coleman African Studies Center, UCLA
Jayathi Murthy, Ph.D., Ronald and Valerie Sugar Dean, UCLA Samueli School of Engineering
(7:15-8:30)
The Nile River from Colonial to the Immediate Post-Colonial Era
Terje Tvedt, Professor, Department of Geography, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway
About this online event
The UCLA African Studies Center and Samueli School of Engineering are pleased to announce a 10-part webinar series on the Nile River Basin crisis. Ethiopia has recently begun to fill its newly-built Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) on the Blue Nile River; it now needs to become fully operational. However, a crisis has emerged involving disagreement between Ethiopia and downstream countries, Egypt and Sudan, on the sharing of the Nile waters, the dam filling period, and water allocation during and after filling the dam. There is an urgent need to consider the formation of a solution to the resulting tensions among the states that depend on the water resource of the Nile River. This webinar series will bring together scholars and practitioners to present research and policy papers on various aspects of this issue, and carefully consider alternative solutions to the Nile River dispute.
Date/Time:
Date(s) - Oct 13, 2021
7:00 am PDT - 8:30 am PDT
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