A recent NASA study found that the drought that began in 1998 in the eastern Mediterranean Levant region, including conflict-affected countries such as Cyprus, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria, and Turkey, was the worst drought in over 900 years.
Read MorePeacetech projects often tackle the typical drivers of conflict: inter-ethnic and inter-religious tensions, gender violence, and land disputes. "Most conflict today is about these local drivers," says Himelfarb. It's a matter of minority rights, corruption, authoritarian regimes. It's (addressing) these drivers which allow you to have a lasting peace and not lapse back into violence again."
Read MoreYesterday, the United States Institute for Peace (USIP) released its latest report "Syria's Socially Mediated Civil War”. Sheldon Himelfarb, the director of USIP's PeaceTech Initiative, which sponsored the research, talked with Syria Deeply about his team's process and findings.
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