Opinion & Insights

How can social impact organizations do a better job of creating environments that encourage risk reduction behavior in ways that authentically meet our social needs? OEF's Conor Seyle explores how our brains undermine long-term thinking, and what social impact organizations can do about it in thi...

With the release of One Earth Future's 2021 report, Executive Director Jon Bellish shares an overview of the Foundation’s progress in incubating programs to foster sustainable peace, and our programs’ major milestones and achievements.

Executive Director Jon Bellish explores an often overlooked actor within the peacebuilding process who can successfully bring implementers and donors together and help avoid common development pitfalls: "The Broker."

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...