Global Peace Index
The 5th annual Global Peace Index (GPI) was released in May 2011 and ranks 153 countries according to 23 indicators of peace. More
Peace Education
The Building Blocks of Peace are a series of downloadable teaching materials that offer a fresh perspective to the issues surrounding global peace. More
Structures of Peace
IEP’s most recent research report identifies the key economic, political and cultural determinants that foster peaceful societies. More
Understanding Peace
Peace is a proxy for progress in many ways, the factors associated with a peaceful environment also underpin the conditions which enable human potential to flourish. More
Global Truce 2012
IEP has partnered with Peace One Day to measure the economic impact of what is hoped will be the largest reduction in global violence in recorded history. More
About IEP
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) is a non-profit research organization dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.
It achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; providing metrics for measurement; uncovering the relationship between peace, business and prosperity, and by promoting a better understanding of the cultural, economic and political factors that drive peacefulness.
National Peace Indices
IEP has launched the first in a series of nation-specific peace indices which allow regional differences within countries to be measured and taken into account.
The U.S. Peace Index (USPI) ranks the fifty U.S. states based on their levels of peace; it shows Maine is the most peaceful U.S. state, while Louisiana is ranked the least peaceful.
Find out more about IEP’s National Peace Indices
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IEP’s most recent research report identifies the key economic, political and cultural determinants that foster peaceful societies. Structures of Peace is derived from an empirical and statistical analysis of the Global Peace Index. See more IEP publications |