2012 USPI released

The 2012 U.S. Peace Index has just been released. The second edition of the index includes the first-ever ranking of metropolitan areas. 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

Global Peace Index

The Global Peace Index (GPI) is the world’s leading measure of national peacefulness. Now in its fifth year, it ranks 153 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’. 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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Highlights and key findings of the 2012 U.S. Peace Index

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Latest publication

IEP’s latest report, Economic Consequences of War on the U.S. Economy, analyses the macroeconomic effects of U.S. government spending on wars and the military since World War II.

Download the full report