Falling productivity, social fragmentation and eroding government trust are straining Western democracies. IEP's new Positive Peace report offers a blueprint for renewal.

Declining press freedom is one of the clearest early signals a country's structural foundations of peace are eroding, IEP's Positive Peace data shows.

Northern Ireland has recorded its lowest levels of violence and fear of violence since 2019, improving 10.7% from the 2019 baseline. However, the structural foundations that sustain peace, measured by ...

Northern Ireland's violence is falling on nearly every measure, except one. Hazel Armstrong, Research Assistant at the Institute for Economics and Peace, examines the patterns in worry about crime ...

Northern Ireland's peace has held for nearly three decades. IEP Research Assistant Lana Messinger examines why public trust in the institutions meant to sustain it has declined. Northern Ireland’s ...

Dr Andrew Thomson and Professor Dominic Bryan of Queen's University Belfast set out the case for using the Positive Peace framework to measure and monitor peacefulness in Northern Ireland, and to ...