UK Peace Index

The UK Peace Index is the first comprehensive measure of levels of peacefulness across the UK. Explore the data on the UKPI interactive map.

Global Terrorism Index

The Global Terrorism Index ranks 158 countries according to the impact of terrorism. 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

U.S. Peace Index

The 2012 U.S. Peace Index was released in April. The second edition of the index includes the first-ever ranking of metropolitan areas. More

Global Peace Index

The 2012 Global Peace Index found that the world has become slightly more peaceful over the last year. See the new GPI maps.

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 is developing a series of nation-specific peace indices which allow regional differences within countries to be measure and taken into account.

The recently released United Kingdom Peace Index (UKPI) explores the fabric of peace in the UK over the last decade. The United States Peace Index (USPI), ranks all 50 states of the U.S. based on their levels of peace.

Find out more about IEP’s National Peace Indices

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Highlights and key findings from the UK Peace Index

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Latest publication

The UK Peace Index report analyses the fabric of peace in the UK over the last decade.

Download the full report