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November 10, 2022

Season Three of Seeking Peace Podcast Released

The Georgetown Institute for Women, Peace and Security (GIWPS), in partnership with Our Secure Future (OSF) and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, released season three of the Seeking Peace podcast.
Robert Sokol
October 20, 2022

Learning How to Transform our Conflicts

No Bigger Challenge, No Bigger Opportunity 
So says Rob Sokol, the new Managing Director of OEF’s eXperimental Negotiation Initiative (xNI). Learn about Rob’s journey to OEF and the vision he is pursuing with William Ury to awaken our innate capacity to transform conflict into creative negotiation.
October 18, 2022

Ice Brings Opportunity to Bander Beyla

The 1,430 fishers of Bander Beyla, Puntland, Somalia now have access to flake ice thanks to a partnership between OEF’s Secure Fisheries program and the Global Food Cold Chain Council (GFCCC) who funded and recently installed a three-ton ice maker in the coastal town.
October 18, 2022

Founding the eXperimental Negotiation Initiative: An OEF Incubation Story

In 2017, as the conflict between the US and North Korea was escalating, the founder of OEF, Marcel Arsenault, partnered with Harvard’s co-founder of the Program for Negotiation, William Ury, to see if there was any way to interrupt the path to the growing potential of a nuclear exchange.
October 18, 2022

Madagascar Mangroves Model Potential for Future Conservation in Somaliland

Secure Fisheries and partner organization Blue Ventures recently completed a learning exchange to Madagascar for members of the fishing community in Zeila, Somaliland, as well as representatives from Somaliland's Ministries of Fisheries and Environment and members of the local non-profit organizatio...
October 12, 2022

Urban Gardens for Peace. From Rioting to Sowing

PASO Colombia is supporting an urban agriculture project in marginalized neighborhoods of Cali, Colombia. It capitalizes the solidarity and desire for change present in these communities, to sow new forms of collective action that contribute to peace building.