Big ideas into action #3: solving water-related conflict - a podcast by WRIs Big Ideas Into Action podcast

How much of a role does water play in conflict, and how do you solve such challenges? These are the key questions at the heart of the third "Big ideas into action" podcast from WRI.

This week we focus on the work of the Water, Peace and Security partnership, drawing together everything from on-the-ground insights to AI and big data to identify where water stresses are likely to lead to conflict, and then help resolve conflicts once they have broken out.

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The paper mentioned, "Ending conflicts over water", can be found here: https://www.wri.org/publication/ending-conflicts-over-water

You can follow the work of the Water, Peace and Security partnership at https://twitter.com/waterpeacesec and https://waterpeacesecurity.org

The sounds from the war in Yemen that you can hear at the start of the podcast are from "Yemen's forgotten war", part of the BBC World Service's highly-recommended Assignment series of radio documentaries. You can listen to it in full here: - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0325f2f

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