Sanam Anderlini talked to OEF about peace and conflict in the modern world and the need to build inclusive societies and political systems.

As was highlighted during the One Earth Future Forum 2015, engaging more women in the conversation is fundamental for achieving peace.

Is a world without war possible in the 21st century? A foundation focused on empirically-based, forward-looking initiatives aimed at improving systems that prevent armed conflict, today opens its second One Earth Future Forum, which convenes the world’s foremost thought leaders on global security.

Discussions about peace have tended toward idealism or theory, but it can be talked about as the subject of scientific inquiry.

President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud describes in this op-ed how Somalia has made strides in marine management over the past 18 months.

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud recently published an op-ed crediting the Secure Fisheries report, Securing Somali Fisheries, with highlighting the extent of foreign fishing in Somalia’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) foreign fishing has not only deprived Somalia of desperately needed revenue, but has also harmed their marine environment through overfishing valuable species.

The CNH program supports research on interactions between humans and the environment, viewing them one as one interconnected system. The grant investigates the dynamic links between the ecology of Lake Victoria in East Africa (a natural system), the economy of its surrounding fisheries (a human syst...

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize represents a first in the history of the Nobel Committee.

Absence of government doesn’t necessarily mean absence of public goods, or systems that resolve collective needs and issues. Somali society has been able to fill some gaps left by the absence of state institutions.

“As is often the case in war, truth is a casualty... Yet an accurate count of the dead is fundamental.”

Thanks to “Black Hawk Down” and “Captain Phillips,” Hollywood has permanently etched into the brains of my students that Somalia is a lawless place of warlords and pirates.

Robert Mazurek, director of the Secure Fisheries agency, told Al Jazeera "the international community has done very little to combat [illegal] fishing in Somali waters".

Sustainable Development Goal 16 on peaceful and inclusive socieites has drawn some criticism, but here’s why many of those concerns are overstated.

Somali diaspora are eager to embrace the growing Somali private sector, and continue to look for new and innovative ways to invest in their country of origin.