Design and Management of Innovative Financial Solutions

Peace Negotiation and Diplomatic Engagement

Aydin Shahidi

November 18, 2022

Leveraging A Learning Approach to Address Complex Problems More Effectively

Throughout OEF’s journey, we have learned a few organizational heuristics that are key for embracing the characteristics of complexity while maintaining operational effectiveness and maximizing the opportunity for impact. We believe that one of the core competencies organizations can leverage in suc...

November 17, 2022

Workshop for Trauma Management and the Beginning of Resilience with Ex-combatants

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and PASO Colombia joined forces to carry out the workshop "Transitions: Attending to the Wounds of the Soul" in which ex-combatants and people working in the reintegration process learned about managing trauma and the path of psychosocial resilience.

Workshop on trauma management and resilience-building with ex-combatants

November 14, 2022

OSF Director Speaks at the ISG Women, Leadership, and National Defense Course

OSF Director and OSF Technology Fellow spoke at the Institute for Security Governance (ISG) Women, Leadership, and National Defense Course in November.

November 10, 2022

Season Three of Seeking Peace Podcast Released

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS), in partnership with Our Secure Future (OSF) and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, released season three of the Seeking Peace podcast.

Robert Sokol

October 20, 2022

Learning How to Transform our Conflicts

No Bigger Challenge, No Bigger Opportunity

So says Rob Sokol, the new Managing Director of OEF’s eXperimental Negotiation Initiative (xNI). Learn about Rob’s journey to OEF and the vision he is pursuing with William Ury to awaken our innate capacity to transform conflict into creative negotiation.

Andreas Persbo

October 19, 2022

OEF Welcomes New Leadership for Open Nuclear Network Program

Welcome to OEF Andreas! Learn about why he’s excited to guide the ONN team toward its goal of reducing the risk that nuclear weapons are used in response to error, uncertainty or misdirection.

October 18, 2022

Founding the eXperimental Negotiation Initiative: An OEF Incubation Story

In 2017, as the conflict between the US and North Korea was escalating, the founder of OEF, Marcel Arsenault, partnered with Harvard’s co-founder of the Program for Negotiation, William Ury, to see if there was any way to interrupt the path to the growing potential of a nuclear exchange.

October 12, 2022

Urban Gardens for Peace. From Rioting to Sowing

PASO Colombia is supporting an urban agriculture project in marginalized neighborhoods of Cali, Colombia. It capitalizes the solidarity and desire for change present in these communities, to sow new forms of collective action that contribute to peace building.

Ellissa Goldberg, Intern for Our Secure Future

September 06, 2022

Progress through Partnership: A Brief Look at How European States and Women’s Civil Society are Aligning WPS and Climate Strategies

August 24, 2022

PASO Organizes Dialogue on Restorative Justice with the United States Institute of Peace in Cali

Carl Stauffer, an expert in reconciliation from the United States Institute of Peace, held a meeting in Cali to discuss restorative justice and its contributions to the sustainability of the peace process with ex-combatants, representatives of public institutions in the department, and members of so...

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