About Blue Peace

Blue Peace is a water diplomacy initiative launched by Switzerland to promote water cooperation across borders, sectors and generations to foster peace, stability and sustainable development.

Turning water competition into water cooperation

Initiated by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA) in 2010, the Blue Peace initiative fosters a comprehensive approach to water cooperation, aiming to enhance global water security and prosperity. Based on multi-year development programmes across various regions and at the global level, it builds on the recommendations from the Global High-Level Panel on Water and Peace report A Matter of Survival.

Acknowledging water’s dual role as both a potential source of conflict and a pathway to peace, stability, and sustainable development, the Blue Peace initiative promotes water cooperation across borders, sectors, and generations.

As a global initiative for water cooperation, Blue Peace supports partnerships at multiple levels and in various regions. Doing so, it emphasizes the need for context-specific approaches and engagements beyond the water sector to foster sustainable development. Thus far, the Blue Peace initiative has developed tailor-made projects in Central Asia, the Middle East, and West Africa.

Water under pressure

Transboundary water management

Our Partners

70%

of the world’s population depends on water that flows across national borders, through transboundary rivers, lakes or underground aquifers.