4 August 2011
International delegates gather for Dundee water symposium
Picture shows attendees at this year's symposium.
Photo opportunity: 7.30pm on Thursday, 4th August at Discovery Point, Dundee. A dinner will be held for 65 delegates attending the symposium.
Lawyers, academics, civil servants, policy makers and students from across the globe have arrived in Dundee for a four-day symposium on water law.
Around 65 delegates are taking part in the International Law and Transboundary Freshwaters Symposium and Workshop 2011 at the University of Dundee. The event, which is being hosted by the University’s IHP-HELP Centre for Water Law, Policy & Science, under the auspices of UNESCO, concludes on Friday.
Jointly organised with the Global Water Partnership and sponsored by Shepherd Wedderburn solicitors (Edinburgh), the symposium is examining the functions of international water law, how it promotes regional peace and security, and how it reconciles competing claims over transboundary freshwaters.
Other key questions explored will include how international legal frameworks support national decision making, and what diplomatic strategies nation states can employ to secure the best legal outcomes possible in light of their transboundary water interests.
Professor Pat Wouters, Director of the Dundee IHP-HELP Centre said, "Dundee contributes to addressing the world's transboundary water problems through its extensive international network of water resource experts.
'The Global Water Partnership scholarship has enabled enhancing national capacity on transboundary water law around the world. We have interacted this week with some of the globe's leading experts and it has been an insightful and inspirational week.'
A dinner will be held for 65 delegates from around the world at Discovery Point on the evening of Thursday, 4th August. The symposium is being chaired by Professor Wouters and Dr Alistair Rieu-Clarke, senior lecturer at the Dundee centre.
The symposium constitutes the first week of the International Water Law module, which forms part of the centre’s Water Law Water Leaders Summer Programme. This will help to create a new generation of water leaders to implement locally devised and driven solutions to water issues, and the programme has attracted participants from around the globe. The module continues until August 13th.
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