The clean energy shift has made critical minerals strategic assets. The DRC's cobalt wealth now collides with weak governance and foreign competition, deepening existing conflict.

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.

Terror groups had been using artificial intelligence mainly as a propaganda tool, useful for generating slick recruitment videos or disinformation. New research ...

Massive infrastructure investments in artificial intelligence are changing the nature of power in the 21st century and reshaping global alliances. Every era of great power competition has revolved ...

For the last two decades, Iceland has been the most peaceful country on earth underpinned by the absence of a standing military, very low crime rates, and strong social cohesion. Following Iceland at ...

Global peacefulness deteriorated for the 12th consecutive year, with the number of active, state-based conflicts reaching 61. This is the highest number since the end of the Second World War. Produced ...

Artificial Intelligence is transforming how peace and conflict are conducted, observed, and analysed. Between 2022 and 2026, the conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine and Iran have served as the first ...

Youth radicalisation is becoming a defining feature of the extremist landscape, with the emergence of a new and highly networked form of violence described as nihilistic violent extremism, writes ...

The terrorist threat to Western nations, following the February 28 strikes that killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, setting off the 2026 Iran War, is significant and multifaceted. The US Department of ...

While it has consistently been ranked among the ten countries most impacted by terrorism, Pakistan in 2025 topped the Global Terrorism Index 2026 (GTI), overtaking Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso dropped ...