Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace

The Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace was created in 2015 in Geneva[1] at the initiative of 15 co-convening UN Member States to analyse water in the context of maintaining peace and security and to move this issue from a technical to a political level.

[2] Chaired by Dr. Danilo Türk, the former President of the Republic of Slovenia, the Panel presented its landmark report, A Matter of Survival,[3] in Geneva in 2017.

[4] The Strategic Foresight Group[5] was the main intellectual partner of the Panel.

Over a period of two years the Panel held consultations and public hearings with all relevant organisations and stakeholders to: In response to the high interest generated by The High Level Panel on Water and Peace, a Group of Friends on Water and Peace was created in early 2016.

It provides participating countries with the opportunity to interact with the work of the Panel and offers them a platform for regular dialogue on the issues and recommendations in A Matter of Survival.