Opinions & Insights

In the heart of the Bulahar fishing community, a transformation was underway, fueled by the determination of individuals like Khalid Hassan. Khalid's journey from a community member to a skilled mechanic unfolded, marking a turning point for his community and their relationship with the sea.

The Kroc Institute of the University of Notre Dame has highlighted as a good practice the collaborative work model between farmers and peace signatories in the Catatumbo Peace Network, led by PASO.

Leveraging the power of collective sensemaking can amplify the impact of learning efforts and help organizations practice adaptive management more effectively. This, in turn, enables organizations to proactively manage risks and seize emerging opportunities for scaling impact.

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...

How can social impact organizations do a better job of creating environments that encourage risk reduction behavior in ways that authentically meet our social needs? OEF's Conor Seyle explores how our brains undermine long-term thinking, and what social impact organizations can do about it in thi...

With the release of One Earth Future's 2021 report, Executive Director Jon Bellish shares an overview of the Foundation’s progress in incubating programs to foster sustainable peace, and our programs’ major milestones and achievements.

Executive Director Jon Bellish explores an often overlooked actor within the peacebuilding process who can successfully bring implementers and donors together and help avoid common development pitfalls: "The Broker."

This “Empirically Speaking” column explores the ways that collaboration and coordination can act as drivers of trust in local government and data from OEF's PASO Colombia program that shows a meaningful correlation.

Why, at One Earth Future and Our Secure Future, do we say that women and gender equality make the difference? Why view the world through a gender lens?

Our core organizational strategy and values require us to take seriously the idea that our goal is to catalyze systems that are sustainable, that are scalable and—most importantly—that actually address problems underlying conflict. So we’ve developed a theory of incubation, based on iteration and sc...

In 2015, negotiations were in full swing during the Colombian peace process. The negotiators were discussing one of the most complex issues: the delicate question of transitional justice and who would be held accountable for the thousands of war crimes. After a complete deadlock, President Juan Manu...

Our column this month by OEF Executive Director Jon Bellish focuses on how we are innovating through this reality with two peacemaking and negotiation programs that aim to transform seemingly impossible conflicts through teamwork, creativity, relationship-building, and the use of open-source data to...

Secure Fisheries Project Manager Jamal Hassan visited the Kismayo area of Somalia in December 2021 to discuss the potential for cooperative management with communities and government officials.

Economic opportunity in the face of conflict has been at the center of several of One Earth Future’s initiatives for peace since the organization was established more than a decade ago those that are most ripe for scaled impact this year through partnership.