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Laasqoray Community Looks Forward to Developing New Skills in 2023

March 17,2023

Workshop for Trauma Management and the Beginning of Resilience with Ex-combatants

The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and PASO Colombia joined forces to carry out the workshop "Transitions: Attending to the Wounds of the Soul" in which ex-combatants and people working in the reintegration process learned about managing trauma and the path of psychosocial resilience.

November 17,2022

Secure Fisheries Meets with the Somali Federal Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy

On December 20th and 21st of 2022, the Secure Fisheries Somalia team met with the Federal Ministry of Fisheries and Blue Economy, including Minister Ahmed Hassan, the Director General, the ministerial technical team, and other senior bureaucrats.

December 28,2022

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Conor Seyle

January 07, 2021

Will the US Take Heed of Recent Lessons To Address US Conflict Drivers?

The violence the world witnessed at the US Capitol on January 6 is no exception to what we have observed internationally for more than a decade in terms of drivers of political violence and conflict. In this issue, OEF Senior Strategic Advisor Conor Seyle dives into what we can learn about moving fo...

Jon Bellish

January 05, 2021

The Importance of Social Trust Lessons Learned from a Decade Working to Resolve Conflicts Globally

The COVID-19 pandemic revealed how the world responded to a universally-shared experienced of crisis. And when it comes to responding peacefully, the key to success lies within a strong social trust. Executive Director and Chief Operations Officer, Jon Bellish, dives into how One Earth Future utiliz...

protestors at US Captiol social trust in US COVID

November 21, 2020

Path to Peace: OEF Celebrates Denver’s Plans for Sand Creek Massacre Memorial at State Capitol Building

One Earth Future believes that the Sand Creek Memorial is one reminder that working together collaboratively to solve problems together is the best way to address the roots of conflict. The Sand Creek statue is the result of collaboration among the sovereign tribes involved and the government of Col...

Model of the planned Sand Creek Memorial design by Harvey Pratt

Clayton Besaw

Matthew Frank

October 15, 2020

It’s Time to Talk About American Election Violence

Violence has grown globally; the potential for election violence in the United States needs to be acknowledged.

Joe Biden and Donald Trump debate on October 22, 2020

Marcel Arsenault

September 17, 2020

Philanthropy’s Role in the Missing Global Architecture

Inter Press Service (IPS), shares an op-ed written by OEF Founder and CEO, Marcel Arsenault discussing the promise of the United Nations over the last 75 years and how philanthropy has a role to play in building a global system for designing, implementing and updating a multitude of plans to tackle ...

Marcel Arsenault

May 21, 2020

Op-ed: Philanthropy’s Role in the Missing Global Architecture

OEF Founder and CEO, Marcel Arsenault discusses the promise of the United Nations over the last 75 years and how philanthropy has a role to play in building a global system for designing, implementing and updating a multitude of plans to tackle the world's most complex and interconnected challenges....

May 22, 2019

Trust and Justice In Burundi

Hopes for peace in Burundi have been stymied as mediation talks have once again been postponed. If the government had implemented transitional justice mechanisms from an earlier peace and reconciliation agreement, would peace have had a better chance?

February 01, 2019

“Human Rights Certified?”: Understanding the Dynamics of Migration

The fish on your plate might be labelled "sustainable", but is it human-rights certified? Our final post in the mixed migration series explores the little-known area of trafficking and forced labor in the fishing sector. 

Michael Spagat

January 15, 2019

The Debate Continues: Peace by the Numbers

Aaron Clauset brings something new to the table by showing that the Correlates of War (COW) dataset on international war size and timing is compatible with a “no change” model according to which the risks of international wars of all possible sizes have remained stable over the last two centuries. M...

January 10, 2019

The Most Underrated Peace Activists

Non-state actors have contributed to the peace process in Colombia over the course of four decades of war.

January 05, 2019

Unsafe Sea Migration, and The Real Counter-Piracy Lessons

More than 1,600 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea in 2015. The month of April alone accounted for an estimated 1,100 dead in three separate accidents involving over-crowded vessels ferrying people fleeing the conflicts in Middle Eastern and Northern African countries for the safety of Euro...