OEF in the Media

Africans are 10 percent more likely to live through a coup than people in other parts of the globe, CoupCast data shows.

The fund has been launched by investment firm Norfund, One Earth Future’s Shuraako initiative and Danish development finance institution IFU, and aims to help Somali entrepreneurs build sustainable businesses, contribute to their country’s economy and tax base, and create a significant number of job...

Somali Pirates Return as Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported Fishing Continues in the Gulf of Aden By Jean-Pierre Larroque 

To fill the gap, Cashion and others with the Sea Around Us project worked with Secure Fisheries, a program of One Earth Future, a United States foundation, to reconstruct the actual domestic and foreign fleet catch data in Somali waters from 1950 to 2015.

The work of Oceans Beyond Piracy is profiled in this interview with Associate Director Jérôme Michelet, who talked about OBP's role in analyzing piracy, intensifying dialogue among stakeholders, and negotiating the release of hostages.

Daniel Brian Krupp, OEF Research Fellow and PhD in Psychology, Neuroscience and Behavior writes in The Conversation.

Director of OEF's PASO Colombia program, Juan Fernando Lucio, is interviewed about a study produced by Universidad de los Andes and PASO Colombia, analyzing over 1,900 civil society peace initiatives in Colombia.

The latest State of Maritime Piracy report by the watchdog Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) warns against security complacency in the shipping industry, particularly around the Horn of Africa.

The report by OEF's Oceans Beyond Piracy program says that after several years of decreased pirate activity, ships are sailing closer to shore and the number of naval vessels patrolling the waters near Somalia has dropped.

A recent spate of attacks off Somalia, meanwhile, may also indicate a resurgence of piracy in East Africa as a result of less vigilance, the Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) project said.

A recent spate of attacks off Somalia, meanwhile, may also indicate a resurgence of piracy in East Africa as a result of less vigilance, the Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) project said.

Commander At its peak in 2011, Somali pirates launched 237 attacks, according to the International Maritime Bureau.

In this blog published on Charged Affairs, Research Assistant Sasha Egorova asks what it will take to re-incentivize Ukraine’s failing peace process.

In 2011, global NGO the One Earth Future Foundation estimated that Somali piracy cost between $6.6-6.9 billion in 2011.

The peace agreement between the FARC and the Government of Colombia is not an end point, rather the beginning of a very long process