In an increasingly networked and digital world in which millions of transactions are recorded daily, the potential of data tampering in centralized ledgers that are the primary depository of these records can not be overemphasized. To partially confront this challenge, distributed ledger technologie...

Small-scale fisheries are having a large impact on fisheries policies around the world.

The workshop was led by a Somali fisheries expert and included 20 participants from a local fishing cooperative.

“If you launch one or many of these at South Korea, you have between seconds and minutes to decide if this is a conventional attack, a nuclear attack or some other WMD payload,” said Melissa Hanham, deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network, a weapons expert specializing in the analysis of satelli...

A Rural Alternative School (ERA for its Spanish acronym) is a productive and educational unit in a territory affected by violence.

Melissa Hanham, a nuclear and open-source intelligence expert at the One Earth Future Foundation, said that while satellites are more capable than ever before, all space sensors could instead fly closer to land on aerial platforms, so planes offer higher-quality images.

Somali waters have high fisheries production potential, but the sustainability of those fisheries is compromised by the presence of foreign fishing vessels, many of them fishing illegally. The Somali domestic fishing sector is small and relatively nascent, but foreign vessels have fished in Somali w...

"We haven't seen any activity which would indicate that there's an impending test," said Melissa Hanham, an expert on open-source intelligence and director of the Datayo Project at the One Earth Future Foundation.

Secure Fisheries coordinated a 45-day boat engine mechanics training for three Somaliland fishers.

"These tests help improve their solid-fuel motors and not only is it good for their short-range systems, it would likely make their long-range missiles quicker and more powerful," said Melissa Hanham, a weapons expert and deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network.

A policy brief by OEF Research explores what role the private sector can have in supporting the Responsibility to Protect principle.

This report reviews a dozen case studies of business engagement in peacebuilding across a variety of private sector actors, strategies, and time. It was developed as a partnership with UN Peacebuilding Support Office and PeaceNexus Foundation with engagement from the UN Global Compact, and is intend...

A new report by OEF Research reviews a dozen case studies of business engagement in peacebuilding across a variety of private sector actors, strategies, and time.

Postdoctoral fellow Dr. Isigi Keadagi hosted a multi-country, interdisciplinary workshop on billfish in Kenya to launch the project, “Billfish Interactions, Livelihoods, and Linkages for Fisheries sustainability in the Western Indian Ocean.”