OEF in the Media

A recent report by One Earth Future, an NGO, says that the region experienced more incidents of piracy last year than anywhere else in the world.

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Just over a week ago, One Earth Future published their annual Stable Seas program report detailing the state of global maritime piracy for the 9th year. Surprising findings include the fact that for the first year the Western Indian Ocean reported no hijackings including Somania, the Gulf of Aden an...

The One Earth Future foundation notes, for example, that: “the African continent will be forced to face negative challenges with negative AI” due to weak governments and social divisions. In this context, European efforts to establish multilateral rules for technology governance may appeal to other ...

But it’s unclear exactly how far along the newly-pictured submarine is, said Melissa Hanham, the deputy director of the Open Nuclear Network. "The submarine is still up in a warehouse, it hasn't been put into the dry docks, it doesn't appear to be finished yet," said Hanham.

Melissa Hanham is a specialist on satellite imagery and open source data with Open nuclear Network, a programme of One Earth Future, which follows peace and security issues. She says both sides have a strong initiative to get ahead of the story in order to win public support.

One Earth Future, which produces an annual State of Maritime Piracy, says that while attacks have been falling substantially in some regions of the world, in West Africa they've been on the rise and are now more frequent than anywhere else.

In fact, in the rural area of ​​Tuluá, a space has been established for coexistence between ex-combatants and victims of the conflict, which has become a model at the national level, with the support of entities such as the Peace Secretariat of the Valley, Undp and the Paso Colombia Foundation, amon...

Analysts counted 18 attempted coups around the world in 1966 and none at all in 2007 or 2018. According to CoupCast, a predictive model based on 68 economic and other variables, Africa is the only continent where the factors that foster coups are still fairly widespread (see map).

As scholars of armed conflict, we believe that such reforms are likely to be put on hold following this episode of government repression.

“The Yongbyon Nuclear Scientific Research Centre is a sprawling campus that primarily serves a military mission -- producing fissile material for North Korea's nuclear weapons. Its construction began in 1961, after North Korea reached two nuclear agreements with the Soviet Union,” Melissa Hanham, a ...

Peace and diplomacy are the best way forward, but the international community should not turn its head from North Korea's provocations or, worse yet, signal that they are acceptable. A small missile is a small missile until it starts a great big nuclear war.

Melissa Hanham was included in a Bloomberg report on the recent DPRK testing.

Melissa Hanham explained to Reuters how North Korea tests showcase growing capability.

Melissa Hanham was interviewed by Bloomberg regarding Kim Jong Un's newest misile capabilities.