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Landmark Memorandum of Understanding Signed in Somaliland

The MOU was signed in Hargeisa by the Minister of Investment and Industrial Development, HE. Abdirasak Ibrahim Mohamed, and Abdirahman Hashi, the Somaliland Director of Shuraako. This initiative aims to boost investments in Somaliland’s production sector, fostering economic opportunities and job creation.

July 27,2024

Transforming Waste Management in Somaliland

Waste management has long been a pressing challenge in Somaliland. Recent studies paint a stark picture: in Hargeisa, Somaliland's capital, only 65% of daily waste is collected due to inefficient equipment. This gap in sanitation services not only affects public health but also hampers economic growth and quality of life.

September 20,2024

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Lindsay Heger

January 15, 2015

Redrawing Our Strategy on Terror

If we allow our reaction to barbarism to be dictated on the fly and by the perpetrators themselves, we condemn the global community to ongoing terror. We need to think differently.

Jon Bellish

January 05, 2015

Amb. Swanee Hunt: The Role of Women in Conflict Resolution

OEF Research’s sister program, Oceans Beyond Piracy, can draw reference to the central theme in Ambassador Swanee Hunt’s work: gender parity.

December 22, 2014

Is the World Falling Apart?

Stories about armed fanatics and lone wolf gunmen fill the headlines and compete for our shocked attention. In an article for Slate, Andrew Mack and Steven Pinker demonstrate that society is not in fact falling apart.

Noah D. Lombardo

November 21, 2014

Underreporting of Crimes at Sea: Reasons, Consequences, and Potential Solutions

The increase in global maritime piracy, particularly in the Western Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden and in the Gulf of Guinea off West Africa, has developed into a serious threat to maritime shipping, demanding the attention of international organizations and states around the world.

October 27, 2014

Setting Sights on a World Without War

Participants at the One Earth Future Forum set sights on a world without war

Kenneth Scott

October 01, 2014

Prosecuting Pirates: Lessons Learned and Continuing Challenges

Since 2005, there has been growing consensus and frequently recurring calls in the international community for the leaders, financiers, and land-based facilitators of modern maritime piracy to be prosecuted.

Amitav Acharya, Blake Berger, Goueun Lee, Kate Tennis

September 01, 2014

Why Govern? The Strategic, Functional, and Normative Logics of Global Governance

Global governance is one of the most critical subjects in international relations scholarship and policymaking today.

One Earth Future

August 27, 2014

Policy Brief: Corporate Social Responsibility and the Responsibility to Protect

One Earth Future

August 21, 2014

Investing in Stability: The Case for Somalia

Research by Victor Odundo Owuor published as “Investing in Stability: The Case for Somalia” in the Business, Peace and Sustainable

Jonathan Bellish

August 15, 2014

The Systematic Prosecution of Somali Pirate Leadership and the Primacy of Multi-Level Cooperation

July 08, 2014

Has the G20 Moved from Efficiency to Legitimacy?

As part of OEF Research’s lunchtime discussion series based on articles from the journal Global Governance, scholars and practitioners engaged in a lively discussion on a coalition which helped the G20 respond to concerns of non-members.

July 01, 2014

Role of the Private Sector in Preventing Mass Atrocities: A Panel Discussion

What role may the private sector have in preventing atrocities? A panel of experts discussed this question during the launch of an OEF Research report on lessons from the private sector in Kenya during election-related violence.

June 09, 2014

Sharing the Stage: Non-State Actors as Leaders in Global Governance

The expectation is that state and non-state actors should be on the same team, but in reality, they are often playing against each other.

Scott Wisor

June 09, 2014

The Role of Kenya's Private Sector in Peacebuilding: The Case of the 2013 Election Cycle

Following the disputed presidential election results in 2007- 08, widespread violence engulfed Kenya, killing over one thousand people and displacing hundreds of thousands. One in three Kenyans were directly affected by the violence.

Scott Wiser

June 09, 2014

The Role of Kenya's Private Sector in Peacebuilding

One Earth Future

June 07, 2014

Re-Balancing the G-20 From Efficiency to Legitimacy

Conor Seyle

June 01, 2014

Business and the Third Pillar

The adoption of the “Responsibility to Protect” (RtoP) by the UN General Assembly marked what many people hoped would be a turning point in support for international action to stop mass atrocity crimes...but it has encountered many hurdles.

Thomas G. Weiss

May 07, 2014

Global Governance: “A Philadelphia Moment”?

An obvious puzzle for friends and foes of international cooperation is how to explain why order, stability, and predictability exist despite the lack of a central authority to address the planet’s problems. In short, how is the world governed in the absence of a world government? This paper explores...

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