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August 01, 2022

Our Secure Future Hosts Event on the Hill for the WPS Congressional Report Launch

The event, titled “Current State of Play: U.S. Efforts to Advance Women, Peace and Security,” featured representatives from multiple U.S. government agencies.

Sahana Dharmapuri speaking at the event.

July 26, 2022

Peacebuilding in Morales

PASO Colombia is the national implementing partner of the "Voces del Territorio" project, which in 40 PDET municipalities in the country, the hardest hit by the conflict, is generating and strengthening initiatives in communication and culture that contribute to peacebuilding.

July 22, 2022

This is how peace is built from the Caucano Pacific

Participants of the Guapi ERA strengthen their agricultural project thanks to funds provided by donor countries for implementing the Peace Agreement and managed jointly by the UN Verification Mission and the United Nations Development Program.

Dr. Conor Seyle

Roberto Chavarria

July 12, 2022

Incubating Peace: One Earth Future’s Approach to Incubating and Scaling Programs for Sustainable Peace

This brief introduces our strategy and plans with the goal of sharing strategic learnings. It explores One Earth Future’s thinking in considerable depth, describes our approach to planning, scoping, executing, and closing projects, and is illustrated with some specific examples from our work.

Hans Hogrefe

Cassandra Zavislak

June 23, 2022

From the Trump to the Biden Administration: The Women, Peace and Security Agenda

This brief outlines the main WPS developments from the Trump to the Biden Administration. There were some significant changes made by the Biden Administration pertaining to gender policy and coordination in general, which likely will also have implications for WPS going forward.

May 11, 2022

Networking for Territorial Peace in Guaviare

In Guaviare, farmer families are betting on networking to build peace in their territories. Gathering different partners and approaches, they are now united in the Guaviare Peace Network to collectively support each other in their productive, organizational, and economic projects.

Conor Seyle

Robert Chavarria

Andrew Siabato

May 05, 2022

Cultivating Trust in Local Government: PASO Colombia Records Significant Increase

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.

April 08, 2022

Catatumbo Peace Network: Labor Link Impacting The Social Fabric

Campesino and excombatant cooperatives join the Catatumbo Peace Network to promote collaborative work and commercial networks of their productive projects from different municipalities in the region.

April 05, 2022

A New Partner for the Voices from the Territory

PASO Colombia joins Voices from the Territory, a project in which we will work alongside communities in 40 PDET municipalities to collaboratively formulate communication projects on their peace-building experiences, using diverse expressions of art, media, and culture.

Sahana Dharmapuri

Hans Hogrefe

Cassandra Zavislak

April 04, 2022

Our Secure Future's New Policy Brief Highlights U.S. Responsibility to Female Afghan Police and Military Personnel

In their latest policy brief, Our Secure Future writes about the United States’ responsibility to the Female Afghan Police and Military Personnel that were recruited, retained, trained, equipped, and paid by the US.

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