Opinion & Insights

This “Empirically Speaking” column explores the ways that collaboration and coordination can act as drivers of trust in local government and data from OEF's PASO Colombia program that shows a meaningful correlation.

Not just this month, as the world celebrates Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, One Earth Future Foundation continually prioritizes efforts to ensure that gender perspectives are taken into account in peace and security decision-making processes. While that shows up in all our prog...

Why, at One Earth Future and Our Secure Future, do we say that women and gender equality make the difference? Why view the world through a gender lens?

Our core organizational strategy and values require us to take seriously the idea that our goal is to catalyze systems that are sustainable, that are scalable and—most importantly—that actually address problems underlying conflict. So we’ve developed a theory of incubation, based on iteration and sc...

In 2015, negotiations were in full swing during the Colombian peace process. The negotiators were discussing one of the most complex issues: the delicate question of transitional justice and who would be held accountable for the thousands of war crimes. After a complete deadlock, President Juan Manu...

Our column this month by OEF Executive Director Jon Bellish focuses on how we are innovating through this reality with two peacemaking and negotiation programs that aim to transform seemingly impossible conflicts through teamwork, creativity, relationship-building, and the use of open-source data to...

Secure Fisheries Project Manager Jamal Hassan visited the Kismayo area of Somalia in December 2021 to discuss the potential for cooperative management with communities and government officials.

Economic opportunity in the face of conflict has been at the center of several of One Earth Future’s initiatives for peace since the organization was established more than a decade ago those that are most ripe for scaled impact this year through partnership.