One Earth Future
One Earth Future (OEF) is a not-for-profit, non-governmental organization based near Denver, Colorado.
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Mission and goals
The One Earth Future (OEF) Foundation is an operating foundation which began with the vision of developing effective systems of governance to help achieve sustainable peace. It was founded in 2007. The organization believes that war is an ineffective way to solve conflict, and that peace can be achieved through retooling governance to meet 21st century challenges. One Earth Future’s professed aim is to engage states, NGOs, and business in governance issues, with the view that cooperation among the three is essential. Marcel Arsenault, the organization's founder, is an entrepreneurial philanthropist who continues to be involved in the organization's development.
Programs
Oceans Beyond Piracy
Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) was launched in 2010 in response to maritime piracy. OBP works to mobilize stakeholders in the maritime community, develop public-private partnerships, and promote sustainable deterrence based on the rule of law. OBP hosts meetings and workshops, conducts research and analysis, and develops and encourages new cross-sector partnerships in an effort to support the international community in its efforts to combat maritime piracy.
Secure Fisheries
Secure Fisheries works to reduce illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing throughout the Indian Ocean, with a focus on Somalia, by conducting science-based assessments of marine resources, promoting best practices in fisheries management, and facilitating regional cooperation.
Shuraako
Shuraako, Somali for partnership, began in 2012 in an attempt to facilitate and coordinate ongoing efforts that support trade, investment and other economic development efforts in Somalia. Shuraako matches capital to Somali entities and manages post-investment execution. Shuraako is a nonprofit initiative with no commercial interests in Somalia.
PASO Colombia
Paz Sostenible para Colombia (PASO Columbia) was launched in 2015 with the purpose of facilitating cross-sector cooperation among stakeholders in selected territories of Colombia, in pursuit of sustainable and inclusive peace. Based on a "5C Approach" of collecting, convening, cooperating, carrying forward, and continuously improving, it offers an information system with diverse data sources and conducts "Sustainable Peace Workshops".
Responsibility to Protect and Business
Started in 2013, OEF's Responsibility to Protect and Business (R2P) project focuses on the role that the business sector can play in preventing mass atrocities. OEF intends to identify the incentives for business participation in R2P, and what role business can play in implementing R2P in practice.
Core Knowledge
Core Knowledge is a project of OEF's Research and Development program, a program which is also responsible for strategic research as well as monitoring and evaluation for the organization. Core Knowledge is an interdisciplinary group of scholars who explore how governance systems and structures can be leveraged to reduce conflict and create conditions for sustainable peace. In addition to specific research that supports each of the above programs, Core Knowledge develops evidence and arguments to support the idea that improved governance systems will help create better conditions for peace.
OEF also maintains the blog Peace Talks on a variety of topics including peace and security, global governance, theory, and human behavior.
Publications
OEF produces research reports, discussion papers, working papers, policy briefs, books, book chapters, journal articles, and conference reports.
Global Governance
OEF hosts Global Governance, a quarterly academic journal published by Lynne Reinner Publishers in association with the Academic Council on the United Nations System (ACUNS). Global Governance is intended to serve as a resource for researchers, students and practitioners interested in governance questions, and the journal's hosts welcome articles challenging conventional wisdom, whether written by scholars or practitioners. The journal engages questions surrounding problems and promises of global governance, such as how different sectors and actors can develop solutions to shared problems in the absence of a global government.
