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Events

  • Ahmed HAJ ASAAD, 17. 05. 2024, Water and its role in strengthening early recovery in Syria: opportunities and challenges A case study from the northern and northwest regions of Syria, in: Early recovery in Syria, co-organized by Omran, Kadim AkademiAhlak Bilgi Uretim, Mardin Artuklu Universitesi, Mardin - Turkiye. View presentation
  • Ahmed HAJ ASAAD, 27 - 30. 04. 2024, Arab water security: between institutional management and political will case study (Syria), in: Institutions and development in Arab countries: challenges and opportunities Conference  co-organized by Arab center for Research & Policy Studies  Doha and Arab Planning Institute  Koweït.
  • Saeed Mhanna, Landon Halloran, Francois Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Philip Brunner. The impact of armed conflict and policy changes on land use/landcover. 2023. JpGU. Tokyo, Japan.
  • Ahmed HAJ ASAAD, 21.11.2023, Orontes Basin: water in the strategy of development, conflict and reconstruction, Conference  co-organized with Association des Etudiant·e·s en Géosciences et Environnement and Mil@CampusLausanne Read more
  • Dan Zehlie, From the Tsarist Empire to the Russo-Ukrainian War: Water Management in the Donbass and Crimea, an Economic, Social and Political Issue, Economics for Ecology, conference Department of Economics, Entrepreneurship and Business Administration, SUMY STATE UNIVERSITY, Read more
  • Ahmed HAJ ASAAD, 26  - 28 octobre 2022, Politique publique interventionnisme au système agraire : de la prospérité promise au désastre enchainée en Syrie, Session 7. Nouveaux usages fonciers et conflits dans l’agriculture irriguée en Méditerranée, "Usages agricoles de l’eau et intensification des systèmes productifs : quelles conséquences sur les ressources foncières ?" Foncimed, Université de Évora, Évora.
  • Saeed Mhanna, Landon Halloran, Francois Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Philip Brunner. Impact of armed conflict on landcover in the Orontes river basin. 2022. WES PhD conference. Bern, Switzerland.
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, 03 March 2022, Politique agricole : stratégie du contrôle et du développement, École Nationale Supérieure des Science Agronomique, Bordeaux France.
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Mukta Milind Dhere, Water for basics needs and social cohesion in conflict and post conflict in Syria, Second International Conference on Environmental Peacebuilding, Geneva,01 - 04 February 2022 Switzerland. Read more 
  • Saeed Mhanna, Landon Halloran, Francois Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Philip Brunner. Development of Syrian refugee camps in the Orontes basin. 2022. SGM. Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • Saeed Mhanna, Landon Halloran, Francois Zwahlen, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Philip Brunner. Remote sensing for arid zones hydrogeology. 2021. WES PhD conference. Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Ahmed HAJ Asaad, 18 - 20 November 2021, Geospatial Information System: Modelling Approach for Rehabilitation And Management of Water Infrastructure Population Stability, Social Cohesion and Peacebuilding in Post Conflict - Syria, in Recovery of ALEPPO Law, Architecture and Geodata Management to Revive War-torn Cities, Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, 24 June 2021, Evolution of agricultural policies in Syria: an agro-hydrological disaster? Évolution des politiques agricoles en Syrie : un désastre agro-hydrologique? eau et agriculture dans le monde arabe, Centre Arabe de recherches et d'études politiques, Paris Read more.
  • Elodie Feijoo, Ronald Jaubert, 07 Novembre 2019, Intergenerational Dialogue on Water and Peace, Geneva Peace Week  2019. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Sajad Bukobero, Ronald Jaubert, 22 - 24 January 2019, Sustainable development in arid and semi-arid areas, Conference of Concerning Sustainable Development in Desert Areas, Imam Abdulrahman bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, 05 – 09 November 2018, Water for Resilience and Peacebuilding in Syria, Water Diplomacy: Building Bridges for Lasting Peace, Geneva Peace Week 2018: Building Peace in a Turbulent World. Read more
  • Joanne Cochand, Ahmed Haj Asaad, 16 . October 2018, Système d’Information sur la petite irrigation, RECA, Niamey – Niger. Read More
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Myriam Saade, 20 – 22 June 2018, In-conflict peacebuilding? Water sharing and management in Syria, POLLEN 18 - Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Ronald Jaubert, Myriam Saadé, Omare Chamali, 19 - 29 June 2018, Water Resilience Recovery Syria Panneaux Exhibition, Maison de la Paix, Espace Kogler, Chemin Eugène-Rigot, 2 Geneva, Switzerland. Read more.
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, 10 – 12 April 2018, Resilience and recovery in the Syrian conflict: Spatial analysis of irrigation and drinking water access, 12th GIS Symposium in Saudi Arabia, IMAM Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, DAMAM, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Ronald Jaubert,12 – 16 February 2018, Pour une négociation locale de la réhabilitation des infrastructures hydrauliques traversant des lignes de démarcation et/ou des limites ethno-confessionnels en Syrie, Biennial Conference of Geosciences and Environment, Lausanne University, Lausanne, Switzerland. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Omar Chamali, Ronald Jaubert, 08 – 10 December 2017, Water for resilience and reconciliation in Syria: challenges of reconstruction, International Conference, Giessen University, Giessen, Germany. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, 11 – 12 October 2017, Resilience and reconciliation in the Syrian conflict: spatial analysis of access to water, Actes SIG 2017, Paris – France.
  • Justine Boillat, Ahmed Eleiba, Ronald Jaubert, 16 th March 2017, Civil Society Space, Networking and Cooperation Lessons Learned and Implications for the Future, Side Event at Human Rights Council, 34th Session, Palais des Nations, Geneva – Switzerland. Read more 
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Myriam Saadé, Ronald Jaubert, Omar Chamali,17 th Decmeber 2016, Watre in the Syrian Conflict: In-and Post-Conflict Challenges, IHEID & Geo Expertise, Geneva – Switzerland.
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, 5 th October 2016, L’eau, les défis d’aujourd’hui et de demain, Water in the Syrian conflict: In and Post-conflict challenges in the Orontes River basin, Lausanne University, Lausanne – Switzerland. Read more
  • François Zwahlen, Raoul Gonzalez, Myriam Saadé, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Ronald Jaubert. 25 – 29 September 2016, Impacts of intensive exploitation of the Jurassic – Cretaceous aquifer system on the organisation of the subsurface water flows Orontes river basin (Lebanon – Syria), 43rd IAH International Congress “Groundwater and society : 60 years of IAH, Montpellier France. Read more
  • Myriam Saadé, Ahmed Haj Asaad, Raoul Gonzalez, Abdallah Droubi, Omar Chamali, François Zwahlen, Michel Bakalowicz, Ronald Jaubert, 25 – 29 September 2016, Irrigation and war, the drivers of change in the Orontes River basin, 43rd IAH International Congress “Groundwater and society: 60 years of IAH, Montpellier France. Read more 
  • Steven Dixon, Elsa Romera Moreno, Amal Sadozi, Ahmed Haj Asaad, 19 th September 2016, Access to Water as a Human Right: A Pathway to Peacebuilding in Syria, Side Event at Human Rights Council, 59th Session, Palais des Nations, Geneva – Switzerland. Read more
  • Steven Dixon, Elsa Romera Moreno, Amal Sadozi, Ahmed Haj Asaad, 25 th April 2016, Boosting cooperation between Switzerland and Syria, Geo Expertise, IHEID, Geneva – Switzerland.
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, 19 – 21 Februry 2016, Water Management in Syria: From Conflict to Reconciliation, International Conference, Failed State Syria – Analytical Perceptions and Perspectives on Future Plans for Reconstruction, Giessen – Germany. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, 24 August, World Water Week Stockholm 2015, How to provide water and sanitation for millions of refugees? Water in the Syrian conflict, 2015. Read more
  • Saadé-Sbeih M., Zwahlen F., Haj Asaad A., Gonzalez R., Jaubert R., 21 – 22 November 2014, Assessing long term changes in the Orontes River basin (Lebanon and Syria): how to deal with variable, incomplete and heterogeneous datasets? 12th Swiss Geoscience Meeting – Drilling the Earth, Fribourg, Suisse. Read more
  • Ahmed Haj Asaad, Omar Chamali, 13 – 14 November 2014, The impact of the conflict on population displacement, water and agriculture in the Orontes River basin, Integrated River Basin Management in the Orontes/Asi River Basin, Istanbul, Turkey. Read more
  • 10-11 June 2013, Challenges and Perspectives of irrigation management in the Orontes River Watershed, Beirut, Lebanon
  • 28-30 November 2011, Le développement de l’oléiculture en Syrie centrale : contrôle de filière et appropriation des terres, Appropriation des ressources naturelles et patrimoniales : compétitions et droits d’accès en Méditerranée, Institu Français du Proche – Orient, Beyrouth – Switzerland.

Workshops

  • Challenges and opportunities of integrated water resources management, Kurdsatn university, Amal and Geo Expertise, Erbil - Irak, 14. November 2024

  • Water in Development, Conflict and Reconstruction Strategy, Kurdsatn university, Amal and Geo Expertise, Erbil - Irak, 13. November 2024

  • Water Diplomacy: Legal and Economic Dynamics for Enhanced Cooperation (Tigris-Euphrates River Basin), Kurdsatn university, Amal and Geo Expertise, Erbil - Irak, 12. November 2024

  • Water Security: Challenges of Political Will,  Kurdsatn university, Amal and Geo Expertise, Erbil - Irak, 11 November 2024

  • Water Resources and Climate Change Adaptation: Strategies for Sustainable Use, Kurdsatn university, Amal and Geo Expertise, Erbil - Irak, 10. November 2024

  • Water in and Post-conflict challenges in Syria, in: Transition Challenges Project, GCSP & SwissPeace, 14 - 15 June 2019. 

  • Haj Asaad A., Saadé-Sbeih, M. Jaubert R., In-conflict peacebuilding? Water sharing and management in Syria, POLLEN 18 - Political Ecology, the Green Economy, and Alternative Sustainabilities, 20-22 June 2018, Oslo and Akershus University College, Oslo, Norway. Read more
  • Civil Society: Hope in the Syrian Disaster?, 19 June, Geo Expertise & IHEID, Geneva, Switzerland. Read more
  • Syria: Civil Society Space, Networking and Cooperation: Lessons Learned and Implications for the Future, IHEID & Geo Expertise, Side event at Human rights Council 34 th session, Palais des nationsm Geneva, Mars 2017. Read more
  • Water in the Syrian conflict : In and Post-conflict challenges in the Orontes River basin,  in: L’eau, les défis d’aujourd’hui et de demain, Lausanne University, 5 octobre 2016. Read more
  • Access to Water as a Human Rights: A Pathway to Peacebuildin in Syria, IHEID & Geo Expertise, Side event at Human rights Council 59 th session, Palais des nationsm Geneva, Septembre 2016.Read more
  • Localizing Humanitarian Response : Re-thinking Avenues for Working in the Syrian Crisis, IHEID & Geo Expertise, Geneva, February 2016. Concept Note, Program, Report.
  • Water Management in Syria: From Conflict to Reconciliation, Failed State Syria – Analytical Perceptions and Perspectives on Future Plans for Reconstruction,  Department of Geography at Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, February 2016. Read more
  • Boosting cooperation between Switzerland and Syria, IHEID & Geo Expertise, Geneva, Avril 2016. Read more
  • Water in the Syrian Conflict: In – and Post-Conflict Challenges,  IHEID, Geneva, December 2015.
  • Gestion de l’eau dans le bassin de l’Oronte (Syrie): Du conflit à la réconciliation, Conférence Francophone ESRI, Paris, October 2105. Read more
  • Water Resources Management in the Asi (Orontes) River Basin: Issues and Opportunities, Co-Organized by MEF University, Istanbul & Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva In Cooperation with Global Program Water Initiatives Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), Istanbul, November 201, Read more 
  • Le développement de l’oléiculture en Syrie centrale : contrôle de filière et appropriation des terres: In: Approriation des ressources naturelles et patriimoniales: Compétitions et droits d'accès en Méditerranée, IRD & Ifpo, Beirut, Lebanon, 28 - 30 december 2011, Read more   

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