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March 08, 2020

OEF Celebrates Women Seeding Peace Across Our Global Communities

It is well documented that women are critical participants in all aspects of society and positive social change, not least of all in achieving peace and stability around the world. The full and meaningful leadership, empowerment, and protection of women is essential to resolving deadly conflict and ...

February 06, 2020

How Rampant Illegal Fishing Is Destabilizing Somalia

In that report, lead author Colleen Devlin breaks Somalia’s recent past into three distinct periods: from 1998 to 2000, conflict between domestic and foreign fishers soared; from 2002 to 2010, Somali pirates took control of the water, driving back foreign vessels; and from 2014 to 2015, piracy calme...

February 05, 2020

The African Coastline Is a Battleground for Foreign Fleets and Artisanal Fishers

For local communities already struggling with pollution and climate change, illegal industrial fishing “is an additional stressor that depletes fisheries resources,” says Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood, a research consultant for Colorado-based One Earth Future who was not involved in the study.

Colleen Devlin

Sarah M. Glaser

Ciera Villegas

Natasia Poinsatte

January 28, 2020

Rough Seas: The Cause and Consequences of Fisheries Conflict in Somali Waters

As competition for finite fisheries resources increases, the risks of violent conflict over fisheries also rise. Where and when can we expect fisheries conflict to occur?

January 10, 2020

Somalia: Small and Medium Companies to Benefit From U.S.$10 Million Fund

Kjell Roland, Norfund CEO, said: This is an important investment and proofs the entrepreneurial spirit of Norfund. With Shuraako as a partner, we have a local team on the ground that works already.

January 10, 2020

Rough Seas: The Causes And Consequences Of Fisheries Conflict In Somali Waters

Rough Seas: The Causes and Consequences of Fisheries Conflict in Somali Waters explores the frequency, intensity, and drivers of fisheries conflict in Somali waters between 1990 and 2018.

January 03, 2020

Men as Partners for Women, Peace and Security: Vital Lessons

Our Secure Future highlighted in Just Security oped by Ambassador Donald Steinberg

Victor Odundo Owuor

Dianna E. Almanza

December 20, 2019

Is Blockchain an Answer to Enterprise Development in Fragile States?

In an increasingly networked and digital world in which millions of transactions are recorded daily, the potential of data tampering in centralized ledgers that are the primary depository of these records can not be overemphasized. To partially confront this challenge, distributed ledger technologie...

December 20, 2019

Is Blockchain an Answer to Enterprise Development in Fragile States?

December 15, 2019

Sustainable Peace Through Collaboration

A Rural Alternative School (ERA for its Spanish acronym) is a productive and educational unit in a territory affected by violence.

December 09, 2019

Washington Debates Role Of Satellites In Open Skies Treaty

Melissa Hanham, a nuclear and open-source intelligence expert at the One Earth Future Foundation, said that while satellites are more capable than ever before, all space sensors could instead fly closer to land on aerial platforms, so planes offer higher-quality images.

Sarah M. Glaser

Paige M. Roberts

Kaija J. Hurlburt

December 06, 2019

Foreign Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing in Somali Water Perpetuates Conflict

Somali waters have high fisheries production potential, but the sustainability of those fisheries is compromised by the presence of foreign fishing vessels, many of them fishing illegally. The Somali domestic fishing sector is small and relatively nascent, but foreign vessels have fished in Somali w...

November 26, 2019

New Policy Brief: Business Can Support R2P Efforts

A policy brief by OEF Research explores what role the private sector can have in supporting the Responsibility to Protect principle.

Conor Seyle

Jinghong Wang

November 25, 2019

Private Sector Peacebuilding: A Review of Past Cases and Lessons Learned

This report reviews a dozen case studies of business engagement in peacebuilding across a variety of private sector actors, strategies, and time. It was developed as a partnership with UN Peacebuilding Support Office and PeaceNexus Foundation with engagement from the UN Global Compact, and is intend...

November 25, 2019

Private Sector Peacebuilding

A new report by OEF Research reviews a dozen case studies of business engagement in peacebuilding across a variety of private sector actors, strategies, and time.

Erica Chenoweth

October 30, 2019

Women’s Participation and The Fate Of Nonviolent Campaigns

This research examines the effects of women’s representation in resistance movements on their choice of strategies and movement effectiveness. The Women in Resistance (WiRe) data set is the first attempt to assess resistance movements on the degree to which they incorporate women into their politica...

October 13, 2019

Secure Fisheries Program Welcomes Somali Government Delegates to Colorado

Secure Fisheries program had the honor of hosting the Chief of Staff to the President of Somalia, Mr. Ali Omar, and the Deputy Chief of Staff, Mr. Saadiq Haji Ibrahim, at the One Earth Future Foundation offices in Colorado.

October 13, 2019

Women's Participation And The Fate Of Nonviolent Campaigns

The Women in Resistance (WiRe) data set is the first of its kind to catalog women’s participation in 338 maximalist resistance campaigns (i.e., those campaigns that call for the toppling of an oppressive government, or territorial self-determination).