Welcome to One Earth Future Foundation!

Peace Through Governance

One Earth Future's (OEF) vision is a world beyond war within one hundred years, achieved by developing more effective systems of global governance.

The current system of global governance, with nation-states as the main legitimate actors in international relations, is no longer able to effectively address global problems on its own. OEF will bolster architectures of global governance that include nation-states, business societies, international organizations, and civil societies. OEF believes that these inclusive structures will be more effective and efficient at solving global problems. more

OEF intends to focus particularly on bringing business to the global governance table. In order to bring in business as partners, OEF will show, through active multi-stakeholder projects and case studies, how business societies benefit from reliable and effective governance architectures. OEF will then encourage them to use a portion of that benefit to support the creation of such systems, resulting in systems that are not only inclusive, effective, and efficient, but also replicable and self-sustaining. more

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Oceans Beyond Piracy 

Oceans Beyond Piracy is One Earth Future's flagship project.  By identifying and developing effective, legal and peaceful solutions to martime piracy, Oceans Beyond Piracy hopes to serve as a model to the worldwide community that there are nonviolent solutions to seemingly intractable problems.  Our first mission is to work with the people and states most affected by piracy to shore up the international legal framework for prosecuting suspected pirates.

A global problem

In the past few years, the international community has witnessed maritme piracy increasing unabated.  Of particular concern are the waters off the coast of Somalia where, in 2009 alone, Somali pirates tallied an astounding 53% of total reported attacks across the globe--including 47 hijacked vessels and 867 seafarers held hostage.  When put into context, however, it becomes clear that piracy is by no means limited to Somalia:  Between 2004-2009, only 15% of global piracy attacks occurred of the coast of Somalia.  Piracy is a global problem and requires global solutions.

Yet, despite the presence of over twenty countries cooperating to protect the seas off the Horn of Africa, piracy has not been reduced.  The navies have reduced the rate of successful hijackings, but pirates have increased their attempts, so the actual number of hijackings has increased.  Naval patrols in the Gulf of Aden have also driven pirates into a much broader area of operation.  Merchant ship crews face an increasingly dangerous situation.

The scourge of piracy increases because there is no effective, international system to deal with the problem.  The world desparately needs to develop a robust sytem to manage piracy, now, before a larger crisis erupts.  Through collaborating with stakeholders from all sectors--industry, civil society and government--Oceans Beyond Piracy is attempting to develop precisely such a system.  Read more.

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