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.

In a world that was not so long ago plagued by the strife of a global pandemic which had many fearing the possibility of never travelling again, we must look at the re-emergence of travel and tourism.

Positive Peace can be described as the attitudes, institutions and structures that create and sustain peaceful societies. The Positive Peace Index (PPI) measures the level of societal resilience of ...

Mexico has long struggled with organised crime, a complex issue that undermines the stability of its regions and communities. Despite efforts to curb the power of criminal organisations, the problem ...

This article covers the Global Peace Index 2024 rankings. For the 2025 peace rankings, see the Global Peace Index map. Produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world’s ...

The concept of peace was first introduced into academic literature by the Norwegian pioneer of peace research Johan Galtung, who distinguished between two types of peace: positive peace and negative ...

As the world faces a decline in peacefulness, the Global Peace Index 2025 (GPI) highlights the countries showing the way on resilience, social cohesion and effective governance. This article covers ...

Islamic State (IS) and its affiliates remained the deadliest terrorist organisation in 2024, responsible for 1,805 deaths across 22 countries. Islamic State (IS) and its affiliates remained the ...