Martina Klimes, PhD
As an Advisor for Water and Peace at SIWI, Dr Klimes is responsible for the Water and Peace portfolio in addition to advising on SIWI’s activities in transboundary basins affected by water scarcity, political tensions, and armed violence. Martina is a member of the World Water Week Scientific Programme Committee (SPC) for the period 2019 and 2022.
Dr Martina Klimes has over 14 years of experience working with dialogue facilitation, conflict resolution, political and security analysis, including practical work in the field and informal diplomacy processes. Her main research focus is on peace processes, incentives, and third party involvement in peace negotiation. Martina’s book Using Carrots to Bring Peace? Negotiation and Third Party Involvement (2016) focuses primarily on the effectiveness of aid conditionality and other external tools that third parties – from states and regional organizations to NGOs – bring to the table in peace negotiations. Martina holds a PhD degree in International Relations and is also an Associated Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm.
Op-eds/Analysis/Policy Briefs/Commentaries
- Elizabeth Yaari, Martina Klimes, Water – A Shared Resource Requiring Inclusive Water Diplomacy, Rural 21, The International Journal of Rural Development, March 2020
- Martina Klimes, Water Diplomacy and Sustainable Water Management in Mesopotamia, Italian Institute for International Political Studies, February 26, 2020 – part of dossier MENA’s Fertile Crescent in the Time of Dry Geopolitics
- Martina Klimes, Waves of Fake News in Transboundary Waters: The Need for Communication Resilience, Global Water Forum, December 17, 2019
- Martina Klimes, Elizabeth Yaari, Water Diplomacy – Facilitating Dialogues, SIWI Policy Brief, July 2019.
Peer-reviewed
- Klimes, M. Guest Editor, Special Issue for the Journal of Hydrology (2019) on Water Diplomacy: Bridging Science, Policy and Practice.
- Klimes, M., Michel, D., Yaari, E.A., Restiani, P. (2019). “Water diplomacy: The intersect of science, policy and practice”, Journal of Hydrology, Volume 575, August 2019, Pages 1362-1370.
Book chapter
- Klimes, M, Yaari, E. (2019). “Water and Security in the Middle East – Opportunities and Challenges for Water Diplomacy” in Routledge Handbook on Middle East Security – Jägerskog, A., Schulz. M., and Swain, A. (eds).
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