Launch of the Report of the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance

The study of individual beliefs and belief systems may have the potential to provide valuable insights into the drivers of many conflicts. But conflict prevention that is not systematic, self-critical and acknowledging of all of the other elements that may spawn conflict, has the potential to devolv...

Why is poverty reduction the ultimate goal of development, and what are the results of this focus? Guest author Elham Seyedsayamdost wrote this blog for OEF based on her research that was discussed at OEF's scholar-practitioner series at the UN.

OEF and the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) co-hosted the Denver launch of the 9th annual Global Peace Index in June. IEP's Executive Director Aubrey Fox visited the OEF offices and talked with Lindsay Heger about the Global Peace Index, including the concept of peace inequality, negative ve...

Promoting peace and human security on our planet will require us to overcome a multitude of obstacles, maintaining environmental sustainability not least among them.

Leaders found that mixing outreach with education can create the critical mass of support needed to drive a social change.

One of the unintended consequences of the increasingly globalized world is the growth of international wildlife crime. This has led to a global crisis on the African continent that we should no longer ignore.

The world is more peaceful than it has ever been... almost.

Knowing what we know, the answer to further reducing conflict seems to lie at the intersection of development and conflict.

We can draw inspiration from visionaries who, like Patrice Martin, can apply design to issues like poverty.

There are many questions we need to wrestle with if we want to seriously take on achieving a world beyond war. These are the central questions OEF asked a forum of global thought leaders to deliberate.

Any global development strategy benefits from collaboration, especially when dealing with issues of considerable complexity and scale. In this post, we discuss social network analysis (SNA) - a useful and adaptable research and evaluation method that can be used by non-profit organizations to assess...

A roundtable workshop was hosted by the One Earth Future Foundation (OEF), in collaboration with the Ateneo School of Government and Puno and Puno Law Offices to provide strategic research support for developing the RTC Impact Fund.

If Myanmar’s government would need no pretext to roll back national political reforms, why might minority groups cause any provocation with escalating violence? OEF Research Jay Benson wrote this blog on the Wilson Center’s New Security Beat.