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Interview Questions for Gidon Bromberg

Please tell me where you’re from and how you got involved in this work.

Why would peace “help destroy the environment”?

Where did you find the other people for that first conference?

When you yourself got involved, was it for peace or was it for the environment, how did you see your goal?

How do you think environmental work and peace work intersect?

Are you resisting economic development?

What do you mean by a "World Heritage concept for the Dead Sea"?

Why is the Dead Sea in bad condition?

How is what you’re doing going to give people a shared resource that brings them together, compared with how joint economic development might?

Can you give me an overview of the Friends of the Earth Middle East programs?

How do you get communities working together on their shared water resource?

What were some of the kids’ reactions when they found out they were wrong about their assumptions about the water situation of the other side?

Why is water a national security issue?

Do you think there’s enough water in this region for everybody?

If you could generalize, across the different societies that you work in, do you find different attitudes about environmental work?

Are they objecting to the road, the wall, and the settlement expansion on an environmental basis?

Do you think the desire to control water supplies and other resources fuels the conflict?

What are your strategies for bringing this more into the public eye?

Have you yourself been involved in other kinds of peace work besides the environmental work?

Do you work with people in Gaza as well?

What would you say are the biggest challenges right now to doing the work?

When and where did the shooting occur at your organization?

Do you have dialogue built in to your summer camp or any of the other activities you do?

What do you hope to achieve in the big picture?

What do you personally gain from doing this work? What have you gotten out of it?

What’s frustrating about the work?

What have you learned about working with cultural differences from the past few years of doing this?

Do people invest in this work for water? Do they do it for peace?

Has the conflict affected your own life?

Can you talk a little bit about why we’re here with regard to what happened in past peace processes?

What does the word peace mean to you?

What role do you think international communities, either governments or individuals, could play here?

Why are you critical of the way money is given in this region [by donor countries]?

What do you think are some of the misconceptions about the region?

From an environmental perspective, I think also a lot of people also don’t understand the geography.