Incubating Programsfor Peace
Shuraako
Fosters lasting peace and stability in Somalia by catalyzing small business investment for job creation and economic development.
Secure Fisheries
Promotes peace, economic stability and resilience in Somali coastal communities through effective co-management of fisheries.
PASO Colombia
Facilitates sustainable peace by coordinating collaboration among rural peasant communities, ex-combatants, government, and business.
Open Nuclear Network
Reduces the risk that nuclear weapons are used in response to error, uncertainty or misdirection.
eXperimental Negotiation Initiative
Partners with decision makers to make peace possible in complex, high stakes international conflict situations through negotiation.
Our Secure Future
Strengthens the Women, Peace and Security movement to enable more effective and inclusive policy making for a more peaceful world.
The challenges of peacebuilding involve maximizing the contribution of multiple technical experts in an often quickly changing environment, and one where participants may not always trust all other participants or where they may be concerned about maintaining their individual authority to make decisions. OEF's Conor Seyle shares how a coordinated approach to peacebuilding can be most effective in these conditions.
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OEF and Alliance for Peacebuilding have released a new report analyzing the results of a wide-ranging survey of 207 international peace researchers, peace funders, and peacebuilders about their perspective on the evidence base around the results of international peacebuilding initiatives. Read More
Impact Spotlight
OEF’s Stable Seas program will close at the end of April. In line with our approach to incubation, it will spin off to become an independent foundation, maintaining its focus on maritime security and continuing to work with stakeholders in the maritime sector around the world. Over its five years at One Earth Future, Stable Seas has constantly iterated and grown its impact on issues relating to maritime security, collective approaches to sustainable peace, and evidence-based practice in peacebuilding.
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Following the announcement by the Chadian government on April 20 that president Adriss Deby had died after 30 years in power, OEF analyst Matthew Frank breaks down the poltical situation in Chad and discusses what OEF's CoupCast data shows about the risk for further instability in the country and throughout the greater Sahel region. Read More
OEF's Executive Director and Chief Operating Office, Jon Bellish talks about OEF's commitment to Relentless Empiricism as core to its belief in and support of iterative problem-solving and careful, analytical design. He discusses how OEF relies on evidence to cut through complexities in order to solve concrete problems at the root of armed conflict, and bring new, collaborative forms of governance into being in its place. Read More
After three years of programmatic incubation, OEF’s Stable Seas program has reached a new milestone. Because of the team’s success demonstrating how accessible information on the relationships between maritime security and on-shore violence can shape the preparedness of government leaders, on May 1st the program’s work is being taken on by a new independent entity being formed by a consortium of partners anchored by the United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime. Read More
OEF’s goal is ultimately the elimination of war. In order to achieve this admittedly lofty goal, we need to have a working theory of the causes of war and how we can help to disrupt them. Fortunately, there is a large body of research in “peace science” and, more broadly, political science. In developing our theory, our challenge wasn’t having too little information - it was coming up with a way of analyzing all of the research out there and developing a theory of war useful to our work. Read More
Open Nuclear Network (ONN) is excited to introduce the members of its Engagement Network (EN) to a broader audience. During the past year, ONN has worked to establish close working relationships with esteemed former senior officials and experts from China, Japan, Russia, South Korea and the United States, all committed to working together with ONN on the focused mission of nuclear risk reduction on the Korean Peninsula and in the broader Northeast Asia region. Read More
It is well documented, today, that women’s empowerment and gender equality are critical to achieving peace and stability around the world. The full and meaningful leadership, empowerment, and protection of women is essential to resolving deadly conflict and building stable, prosperous, and just post-conflict societies. We celebrate and support women and their male allies around the world who are working together to make that a reality. Happy Women’s History Month! Read More
