Sharing the Stage: Non-State Actors as Leaders in Global Governance
The expectation is that state and non-state actors should be on the same team, but in reality, they are often playing against each other.
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The UN’s Sustainable Development Goals: How Did Poverty Reduction become Synonymous with Development?
Why is poverty reduction the ultimate goal of development, and what are the results of this focus? Guest author Elham Seyedsayamdost wrote this blog for OEF based on her research that was discussed at OEF's scholar-practitioner series at the UN.
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Introducing the Somali Investment Survey: Catalyzing Investment to Grow Somalia.
In Somalia's progressively complex financial ecosystem, members of the Somali diaspora are playing a major role.
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The Most Underrated Peace Activists
Non-state actors have contributed to the peace process in Colombia over the course of four decades of war.
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In UN Peacebuilding, Local Ownership Takes Backseat
Local ownership of peacebuilding activities makes sense in theory, but is rarely put into practice in UN peace operations. Guest author Sarah von Billerbeck explains more in this blog based on her talk at OEF Research's scholar-practitioner series at the UN.
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Blood Teak: Natural Resources Competition in Myanmar
If Myanmar's government would need no pretext to roll back national political reforms, why might minority groups cause any provocation with escalating violence? OEF Research Jay Benson wrote this blog on the Wilson Center's New Security Beat.
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Altruism & Spite: The Influence of Our Neighbors
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Destabilizing Dark Networks: The Case of Illegal Trade in African Elephant Ivory
One of the unintended consequences of the increasingly globalized world is the growth of international wildlife crime. This has led to a global crisis on the African continent that we should no longer ignore.
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The Power of the Private Sector - An Untapped Source of Atrocity Prevention
The private sector is often an underutilized, underestimated source for preventing and responding to atrocity crimes, says OEF Research's Conor Seyle on ICRtoP's blog.
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Unsafe Sea Migration, and The Real Counter-Piracy Lessons
More than 1,600 migrants have died in the Mediterranean Sea in 2015. The month of April alone accounted for an estimated 1,100 dead in three separate accidents involving over-crowded vessels ferrying people fleeing the conflicts in Middle Eastern and Northern African countries for the safety of Europe.
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From "Reduced War" to "Beyond War"
There are many questions we need to wrestle with if we want to seriously take on achieving a world beyond war. These are the central questions OEF asked a forum of global thought leaders to deliberate.
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