Eric Abitbol

Instructor
School of International Service

• Eric Abitbol is an academic-practitioner in the field of environmental peacebuilding, housed in IPCR (International Peace and Conflict Resolution) and GEP (Global Environmental Politics) at American University. Specializing in Israeli-Palestinian relations, his recent work analyses the discursive practices of Israeli and Palestinian water practitioners, assessing hydropolitical peacebuilding, hydrohegemony and hydrohegemonic residues. He is currently sharing the leadership of a collaborative North-South research project intent on assessing the effects of Peace and Conflict Impact Assessment (PCIA). He is also pursuing research on the constructions of sustainability as cultural violence, with specific reference to asymmetric conflict environments. Abitbol is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Research and Innovation in Sustainability (IRIS) at York University (Toronto, Canada) and is on the board of the Journal of Peacebuilding and Development.

• Degrees

  PhD (ABD), University of Bradford (Defence January 2013), MSc (1994), London School of Economics, BA (1992, Honours), McGill University

• Favorite Spot on Campus:

  Tennis courts
  

  Book Currently Reading:

  Dany Laferrier, L’Enigme du Retour
  

  Languages Spoken:

  French, Hebrew, English