Fishing is a vibrant sector along the Somali Coast. With continued support through investment and improved management, the Somali fishing sector has the potential to boost the Somali economy, ensuring long-term growth and stability in the region.

Hundreds of Somali fishers, entrepreneurs, investors, and policy makers gathered in Puntland recently to promote sustainable development of the Somali fishery sector.

The forum brought together fisheries ministers from each of the Somali Regional Member States and the Federal Deputy Minister of Fisheries.

With the longest coastline in Africa, Somalia has the potential to support a productive fishing sector.  

The second half of the twentieth century showed marked declines in both the number of major wars and the deaths associated with them.

The Myanmar military brutally attacked Rohingya civilians. Suu Kyi, a Nobel Peace Prize winner and leader of Myanmar, didn’t condemn the attack. Why not? Social science has answers.

The Enduring Threat of a Large Interstate War

Caficultores del Norte del Cauca participan en taller de creación colectiva para contar la historia de Café Paz en su región.

Caficultores del Norte del Cauca participan en taller de creación colectiva para contar la historia de Café Paz en su región.

Assimilating data from 30 countries in sub-Saharan Africa over nine issue areas, the Index brings together diverse challenges like piracy, smuggling, and capacity-building in one comprehensive analysis to better understand how these issues intersect to affect maritime security.

Three hundred thirty participants who have an active role in Somaliland’s private sector and energy sector, including investors, business entrepreneurs, donors, and development partners attended the Somaliland Investment Forum. The event was held in Hargeisa, 19 - 21, September 2017.

The world’s ocean coalition is increasingly recognizing that ocean health and human security are inextricably linked.

Kaija Hurlburt, Director of Secure Fisheries, spoke to a workshop at the Stimson Center about the intersection of IUU fishing and national security concerns as they operate in Somali waters.

The three-day Somaliland Investment Forum 2017, which concluded today, signaled to the world that Somaliland is serious about taking control of its economic future and in welcoming the world to invest in its local businesses and to support its eager new class of entrepreneurs.

A new analysis of conflict data begs the question: do the data show a random risk of major war, or is there evidence that the decline in wars over the past 70 years is related to external causes?