Sahana Dharmapuri, the Senior Advisor to the Women, Peace and Security Initiative at the One Earth Future Foundation, was a featured speaker at the Alliance for Peacebuilding's Conversations with Extraordinary Women Speaker Series through their Women & Peacebuilding Affinity Group on Sept. 15th.
Sustaining peace in Colombia will rely upon communities building peace with their own hands. The Denver Post spoke with PASO Colombia’s country director, Juan Fernando Lucio, to gain more insight on how One Earth Future is working with local communities to regain hope and end the tragedy of war.
The BBC examines how pirates have adopted new methods for carrying out attacks and how counter-piracy operations are utilizing new technologies to stop them. OBP Director Jon Huggins weighs in on the conversation.
There are numerous examples of ways in which the business sector has been and continues to be involved in activities that lead to mass atrocity crimes. These include instances such as when business cooperates with abusive state security services to violently suppress dissent, telecommunication compa...
Repression is an often overlooked consequence of coup attempts, say Jonathan Powell and OEF Research’s Curtis Bell in their recent post on the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage blog.
Secure Fisheries’ Sarah Glaser presented research on rapidly expanding cage aquaculture in Lake Victoria at the American Fisheries Society's annual meeting.
A recent event hosted by Urgent Action Fund, Global Greengrants Fund, and OEF’s Our Secure Future program on August 16th included discussions about the connections between security, climate change, and women's human rights.
The Secure Fisheries program’s latest blog post emphasizes that regional collaboration is crucial to reduce conflicts around shared resources and manage them sustainably.
56 years of conflict between the Colombian government and FARC (Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) came to an end in June with a bilateral cease-fire.
Though the label reflects how sexual violence has been used as a weapon of war, the label masks women’s powerful activism for peace and political participation in their country, depicting them solely as victims rather than agents of change. It also obscures their varying priorities for security, and...