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Spring Training Highlights

One Earth Future's Secure Fisheries, organized a skill-based training session in the Injooni fishing village in Kismayo, Jubbaland Somalia. The training focused on various aspects of fishing equipment, particularly net making, maintenance, and repair. Five members from neighboring fishing communities participated in the session alongside local fishermen.

March 28,2024

Addressing Migration And Value Chains In The Arauca Region

Since 2021, this project generates opportunities for socio-economic inclusion and employment for the vulnerable local population and Venezuelan migrants.

March 27,2024

One Earth Future's Shuraako Program Joins The Invest Somalia Conference and Expo 2024 in Mogadishu

Mogadishu, April 24, 2024 - The Invest Somalia Conference and Expo has a clear message: the time to invest in Somalia are now. Somalia has demonstrated its readiness to embrace investment, setting the stage for fruitful partnerships and initiatives. Organizers and attendees are focused on paving the way for a more interconnected future for the region.

April 24,2024

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March 30, 2021

Building Community

Community work involves more than physical presence and specialized expertise. Join Oregon State University graduate student, Ashley Peiffer, in exploring what it means to build meaningful relationships that inspire community-led projects and how research with Secure Fisheries illuminates both perso...

March 18, 2021

Peacebuilding Requires a Coordinated Effort

OEF’s goal is ultimately the elimination of war. In order to achieve this admittedly lofty goal, we need to have a working theory of the causes of war and how we can help to disrupt them. Fortunately, there is a large body of research in “peace science” and, more broadly, political science. In devel...

The Difficulty of Peacebuilding in Syria

March 12, 2021

African Actors Leading the Way

Southern African regions are increasingly shaping global norms around security. A recent blog series by OEF Research explores these.

March 11, 2021

Secure Fisheries 2020 Year in Review

Secure Fisheries is taking a look back at the challenges, adaptations, and accomplishments during the COVID-19 pandemic.

March 10, 2021

Bander Beyla Co-Management Association Registers Local Fishing Boats

The goal of this effort is to inform fisheries management by regularly assessing how many boats are fishing in the district’s waters and to generate revenue through licenses.

March 08, 2021

Perspectives on Peace | Celebrating Women’s History Month

It is well documented, today, that women’s empowerment and gender equality are critical to achieving peace and stability around the world. The full and meaningful leadership, empowerment, and protection of women is essential to resolving deadly conflict and building stable, prosperous, and just post...

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March 03, 2021

70 Participants Graduate from Fisher Field School

Graduates demonstrated the knowledge and skills they gained in fish capture, boat repair, and post-harvest processing to the Deputy Minister of Livestock and Fishery Development, other government officers, and key stakeholders.

February 26, 2021

Alternative Facts and Unconscious Bias: How We are Less Rational than We Think

This is really not the time for alternative facts. Serious global challenges—climate change, war and refugees, growing authoritarianism—require thoughtful responses based on data and evidence. But truth seems to be malleable and alternative facts compete with actual facts. And people with confli...

February 25, 2021

Secure Fisheries Joins the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions

Secure Fisheries became a member of the Conservation Alliance for Seafood Solutions, a global community of stakeholders from around the world working together to make seafood supply chains more sustainable.

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February 24, 2021

Balancing long-term thinking, short-term metrics, and flexible project planning

Over the past several decades, a number of different critiques of nonprofit work have emerged. Inevitably, these critiques have a strong basis — they identify real and specific issues in how nonprofits work — but collectively they may present a problem by calling for approaches that aren’t easily r...

February 20, 2021

Shuraako Partners With the EU to Boost the Somali Private Sector Through Access to Finance

On February 2, 2021, the European Union launched 3 new projects in support of Somalia’s private sector.

February 18, 2021

Election violence spiked worldwide in 2020 – will this year be better?

ONN analysts Dr. Clayton Besaw and Matthew Frank have published their most recent analysis on the election violence in 2020 and their predictions for similar events ahead in 2021.

February 12, 2021

Urban Agroecology for Food Security in Cali

The Rural Alternative School (ERA) of Cali launched a community garden project that encourages urban agroecology and supports food security in the neighborhood of Siloé.

February 04, 2021

A Deep-Dive into OEF's Theory of Peace

Peacebuilding organizations like OEF face a surprising problem: deciding what we mean by peace. In developing our theories of impact and articulating how we do our work, we start with our end goal: the elimination of war and large-scale organized political violence.

February 01, 2021

Recognizing a Few Influential Peacebuilders this Black History Month

In our mission to create an Earth beyond war and establish sustainable peace, we’re taking a moment to acknowledge a few of the many influential and empowering peacebuilders of the black community who have left an everlasting impact on the path towards a peaceful humanity. 