OSF News & Events

A new poll from One Earth Future’s Our Secure Future department highlights American attitudes about a feminist foreign policy agenda.

The WPS Caucus will focus its work on the critical role women have to play in conflict prevention, mitigation, and recovery as outlined in UN Security Council Resolution 1325 (UNSCR 1325) on Women, Peace and Security.

Early in February, OSF Fellow Miki Jacevic joined Canada’s Women, Peace and Security Ambassador, Jacqueline O’Neill, and Prime Minister Trudeau at the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.

On Friday, March 4, the Women, Peace and Security Congressional Caucus hosted an off-the-record staffer-level training with civil society organizations.

OSF Fellow Jolynn Shoemaker discussed the project "Global Gender Equality in the Digital Age: Bridging the Gaps between Tech and Women, Peace and Security” with those working on the intersection between peace activism and tech at the 2019 Build Peace Conference.

Our Secure Future held a strategy roundtable for Mobilizing Men as Partners for Women, Peace and Security.

OSF, in partnership with Smash Strategies and InterAction, held a convening to discuss the implementation of a Feminist Foreign Policy in the US.

Director Shanana Dharmapuri, and OSF Fellow Jolynn Shoemaker, presented at the 2019 Bioneers conference, Seeding the Field - Growing Transformative Solutions.

On Wednesday, October 2, 2019, OSF Partner, Alex Arriaga, presented at the 2019 PeaceCon. The conference, hosted annually by the Alliance for Peacebuilding and held at the United States Institute of Peace, convenes members of the peacebuilding community to discuss today’s changing conflict dynamics ...

In an article published in Just Security, Ambassador Donald Steinberg outlines an "agenda for action" for the US and other actors.

"To me that meant promoting human rights, and we all know that women’s rights are human rights, seeking gender equality and protecting vulnerable populations... those are pretty good bases for a national security framework."

On August 27th, Our Secure Future hosted the screening of two documentaries, Women, Peace & Power and Naila and the Uprising at the Dairy Arts theater in Boulder, Colorado.

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of the Republic of Liberia addressing the media during her State visit to South Africa. “The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.”

Today, we celebrate the independence of thought and a vision of security with a gender perspective.

On September 11, 2001, I was getting my hands decorated with henna. Mr. A switched on the television. What we saw next made our breath catch in our throats. An aircraft dovetailed into the North Wing of the World Trade Centre. I remembered the building from a gigantic picture of New York by Night th...