Klamath River Basin Conflict over Water
We completed two projects for students from six high schools in the Klamath River Basin where the water conflict was too often framed as “farms vs. fish.” Students studied and discussed via the Internet different stakeholder perspectives, social and science challenges and possible solutions.
Our work for the last two years has been with biology students from five Klamath River Basin and Oregon Coast high schools. Students studied and discussed via the Internet two major Oregon research projects using genetics and ecology to save salmon. The rational for these projects was to address declining salmon numbers in the Klamath River.
Over the last ten years Educational Solutions has completed five documentaries on problems and solutions relating to the Klamath River Basin’s water crisis. These documentaries have been distributed on DVD to libraries, schools, community groups and government agencies. They have also been broadcast on community television and Southern Oregon Public Television.
Our two most recent documentaries, available on this website, are “Saving Salmon: Bringing C. shasta Back into Balance” and “Sustaining Salmon: Fishermen, Scientists, and Project CROOS.” Both are also available on YouTube and will be aired on Southern Oregon Public Television in February 2012.
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict / Religion Culture
We completed several projects introducing university students to the competing Israeli and Palestinian narratives. The first projects involved professors and students at the Oregon Institute of Technology and the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. We then worked with students and professors at Al Quds University in the Palestinian West Bank and Bar Ilan University in Israel.
UPDATE:
Educational Solutions, an Oregon 501 (c)3 nonprofit, is moving to inactive status in 2012.
We discontinued our work on the Israeli Palestinian conflict in 2009 because after Gaza, all Palestinian universities were unwilling to work with Israeli Universities. The Arab Spring increased the difficulty of working in the region.
We are discontinuing our work in the Klamath River Basin because of difficulty raising funds.