“Across Borders: Managing Trans-Boundary Environmental Resources in the Middle East and the United States” is an international exchange program for Emerging Young Professionals (EYPs), sponsored by the US Department of State’s office of Citizen Exchanges, and delivered by Dickinson College and the cooperation of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
This highly selective, 4-week, fully funded, study-abroad program for citizens from Egypt, Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Territories (dual US citizens are ineligible) is designed to foster a substantive understanding of how environmental, economic, social and political factors converge to influence policy and practice in the management of trans-boundary environmental resources, with a particular focus on the Middle East and United States. Tentative dates for the summer 2012 U.S. cohort are July 1- July 28, 2012.
Call for Applications
In this context, applications are invited from eligible emerging young professionals (roughly an age range of 25-40) with some professional experience and evidence for advancement in their field to attend this program.
A successful applicant will have excellent English skills.
Program Issues and Activities
What’s at stake when communities have to share natural resources? What factors come into play as states compete for essential commodities that are in limited supply? As an Across Borders fellow, you’ll learn why questions like these should be viewed from many different perspectives and solved through interdisciplinary collaboration.
During the summer of 2012 the participants will investigate these questions and examine many technological and policy issues. They will also make a case study of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, a water system shared by six US states, essential to agriculture, tourism, fishing, industry and basic human needs. They’ll also explore how environmental, economic, social and political factors come together to influence the way policies are created and implemented.
What happens when lessons learned in the study of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed are applied to cases such as the Jordan River Valley and the Red Sea? The goal will be to take away lessons and ideas that can help improve natural resource management in the Middle East.
Program Cost
The program is fully paid (travel, meals, lodging) for and includes generous book and cultural entertainment allowances.
Last date for submission of applications is October 31, 2011
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