the first speaker will be jason gehrig who is water engineer working with the terror to regional water district in fort worth, texas. jason served eight years with lay missionaries as an engineering adviser to the bolivian ngo. he has sorts closely with the indigenous peoples of the andes focusing on issues ranging from the implementation of a rural and semi urban committed to water and sanitation projects to challenging the opposed privatization of urban water services. jason is the lead author of the document that was available outside, "water and conflict" incorporating peace building into water development. the second speaker will be william hall who is an adjunct professor of in the conflict resolution program at georgetown university. his teaching and research interests include the dynamics of a rental negotiation, and the of our mental and economic results of environmental conflict of resolution. he also serves as a staff facilitator and mediator for the u.s. environmental protection agency is a conflict prevention and resolution center. our third speaker who will be tjip walker

my name is jason gehrig.d i landed in bolivia, where we proceeded to make our lives on the outskirts of this impoverished city for the next seven and half years. the focus of my talk will be an overview of this book. i will give one of the stories of my own experience with water and sanitation work in the bolivian andes. it is important to give a quick overview of the context in bolivia over the last decade. it has been living through a tremendous historical period where they've been able to achieve power, and as you can imagine, this has not come easily. i waste being blockaded for three or four weeks that time -- highways being blockaded for three of four weeks at a time. generally peaceful, but some tremendous brutality by government forces of order. two of those were induced by water-related issues, another by gas or in 2003, leaving 60 of our fellow residents murdered in cold blood. there are continuous water development efforts despite that. peace corps volunteers have been pulled out in 2002. i bring t