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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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March 17, 2015

Climate Change Causes Conflict? Climate Change Doesn’t Matter? Don’t Rush to Conclusions Either Way

Some assume climate change will lead to increased conflict. Climate change is certainly a threat to the well-being and livelihoods of people around the world, but the relationship between climate and violent conflict is not as straightforward.

Jon Bellish

March 05, 2015

Sanam Anderlini: Embracing Lessons for Nonviolence

Despite dealing daily with what might seem like uphill battles, Sanam Anderlini remains emphatically positive that with hard work and resources peace is possible. We agree. So how do we get there?

March 01, 2015

Is Civil Society a Double-Edged Sword?

There are competing perspectives about the role of civil society in weakly institutionalized democracies. At times, the destabilization caused by mass mobilization can seem challenging to democratic governance.

February 15, 2015

Containing Aggression or Falling Short? Assessing the UN Security Council

Amid a growing chorus of dissatisfaction with the UN Security Council’s inability to prevent armed conflict in places such as Syria and Crimea, OEF and ACUNS convened a discussion on how to fairly assess the Council and whether its current structure helps or hinders it from fulfilling its mission.

Conor Seyle

February 11, 2015

Somali Piracy and the War That Didn't Happen

Networks of non-state actors have proved to be a more sustainable force in countering piracy than military boots and warships.

Jon Bellish

February 05, 2015

William Ury: Changing Perceptions about Peace

What if the main problem with peace isn’t that it is naïve but that it is misunderstood?

Lindsay Heger

January 15, 2015

Redrawing Our Strategy on Terror

If we allow our reaction to barbarism to be dictated on the fly and by the perpetrators themselves, we condemn the global community to ongoing terror. We need to think differently.

Jon Bellish

January 05, 2015

Amb. Swanee Hunt: The Role of Women in Conflict Resolution

OEF Research’s sister program, Oceans Beyond Piracy, can draw reference to the central theme in Ambassador Swanee Hunt’s work: gender parity.

Amitav Acharya, Blake Berger, Goueun Lee, Kate Tennis

September 01, 2014

Why Govern? The Strategic, Functional, and Normative Logics of Global Governance

Global governance is one of the most critical subjects in international relations scholarship and policymaking today.

June 09, 2014

Sharing the Stage: Non-State Actors as Leaders in Global Governance

The expectation is that state and non-state actors should be on the same team, but in reality, they are often playing against each other.

Conor Seyle

June 01, 2014

Business and the Third Pillar

The adoption of the “Responsibility to Protect” (RtoP) by the UN General Assembly marked what many people hoped would be a turning point in support for international action to stop mass atrocity crimes...but it has encountered many hurdles.

March 01, 2014

Peace Enforcement and Protection of Civilians in the DRC

On November 20th 2012, fighters from the M23 rebel movement streamed past UN peacekeepers into the city of Goma, the provincial capital of the DRC’s North Kivu province. Fighters looted homes, killed suspected rivals, committed unknown numbers of sexual assaults, injured hundreds of civilians and ca...