Dr. Clive Lipchin is the Director of the Center for Transboundary Water Management at the Arava Institute for Environmental Studies, located in the Negev desert in Israel. The Arava Institute provides Israeli, Palestinian, Jordanian and other international students an opportunity to live together for an extended period of time, studying approaches to water resource management, ecology, sustainable agriculture and renewable energy.  Dr. Lipchin focuses his research and teaching on issues of conflict and cooperation on transboundary water and environmental problems facing Israel, Jordan and Palestine.