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Meet Inspiring Female Peace Activists
Ambassadors
March 6, 2026

Meet Inspiring Female Peace Activists

Meet some inspiring grass-roots women peacebuilders.

The Great Fragmentation and the Rise of Middle Powers
Great Fragmentation
March 5, 2026

The Great Fragmentation and the Rise of Middle Powers

By Steve Killelea, Founder & Executive Chairman, Institute for Economics & Peace.

‘El Mencho’ Is Dead. Mexico’s Fragile Peace Now Faces Its Biggest Test in Years
Analysis
February 25, 2026

‘El Mencho’ Is Dead. Mexico’s Fragile Peace Now Faces Its Biggest Test in Years

The killing of Nemesio ‘El Mencho’ Oseguera Cervantes, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), marks the end of an era in Mexico’s...

EVENTS

Briefing on Positive Peace for the Bahraini Economic Development Board and Ministry of Sustainability

10 November 2025 | Briefing

Climate Resilience: The Key to Peace and Sustainability in Asia

13 November 2025 | Conference

PEACE

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Meet Inspiring Female Peace Activists
Ambassadors, Peacebuilding, Positive Peace
March 6, 2026

Meet Inspiring Female Peace Activists

Development

Why Integrate Peace into Development, and How to Measure It 

January 22, 2026

Development

Five Ways NGOs Can Strengthen and Demonstrate Impact 

January 22, 2026

Ecological Threats

Why political, social and ecological risks are amplifying global conflict

January 21, 2026

Development

Measuring Social Impact: Challenges and Opportunities

January 21, 2026

Development

Are Your Investments Actually Strengthening Community? 

January 20, 2026

Peace

Aristotle Through the Lens of Positive Peace 

January 15, 2026

TERRORISM

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Gun ownership and peacefulness: what the data tell us after Bondi Beach
Editorial, Terrorism
December 17, 2025

Gun ownership and peacefulness: what the data tell us after Bondi Beach

Terrorism

How lone wolf attacks continue to change terror risk in the West

September 17, 2025

Extremism

Characteristics and Drivers of Lone Wolf Terrorism

June 11, 2025

Analysis

Unpacking the new face of conflict: Sudan’s civil war amid a fragmented geopolitical order

May 22, 2025

Development

Shifting Sands in Security: Foreign Counterterrorism Influences in the Sahel

April 15, 2025

Extremism

The terror group expanding beyond borders and into cyberspace

April 3, 2025

Global Terrorism Index

Ten lessons from the Russia-Ukraine war 

March 31, 2025

ECONOMISTS ON PEACE

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Europe’s push to label defence investments as ESG 
Defence, Economics, Economists on Peace
September 4, 2025

Europe’s push to label defence investments as ESG 

Defence

The Arms Industry: Exactly How Global is Arms Production?

September 1, 2025

Economists on Peace

Will Kim Jong Un risk a war?

March 5, 2024

Economists on Peace

Why we kill … and why we might not need to.

December 7, 2023

Economists on Peace

Inefficiencies in major weapon systems procurement

December 1, 2023

Economists on Peace

Rising international economic insecurity and the imminence of ecological & environmental wars

December 1, 2023

Conflict

In Search of an Exit Strategy

September 8, 2023

CLIMATE

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Brazil and the Amazon: 50 Years of Shifting Policy and Global Consequence
COP30, Ecological Threats
November 14, 2025

Brazil and the Amazon: 50 Years of Shifting Policy and Global Consequence

COP30

Rising Ecological Threats in Northwestern Africa: Tunisia’s Worsening Water Crisis

November 7, 2025

COP30

How India and Pakistan’s co-operation over water has avoided conflict 

November 3, 2025

COP30

Amazon Risks Rising from Ecological Threats

October 29, 2025

COP30

Rainfall and Conflict in East Africa’s Karamoja Cluster

October 29, 2025

Climate

Climate Change and Social Strain Threaten the Peace in the Sundarbans

October 8, 2025

Climate

The price for thirst

December 5, 2024

AMBASSADORS

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Meet Inspiring Female Peace Activists
Ambassadors, Peacebuilding, Positive Peace
March 6, 2026

Meet Inspiring Female Peace Activists

Ambassadors

Peace Starts With Us: inspiring stories of grassroots action 

July 9, 2025

Ambassadors

An election monitoring mission in Nigeria presents a pathway for peacebuilding

February 10, 2025

Ambassadors

From canvas to conflict resolution in Nepal

December 9, 2024

Ambassadors

Harnessing the power of Afghan youth to forge peace

August 8, 2024

Ambassadors

Revitalising a forest and a community

August 8, 2024

Ambassadors

Positive Peace: The Rotary-IEP Partnership in Local Peacebuilding

April 16, 2024

COVID-19

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The COVID-19 pandemic and inequality and democracy
COVID-19, Economists on Peace
May 6, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and inequality and democracy

COVID-19

Our Future in a Climate Change and Post Corona World

November 8, 2021

Civil Unrest

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Peace

September 29, 2021

COVID-19

Crisis in Haiti Intensifies Amid Pandemic [ETR 2020 Report]

September 28, 2021

Civil Unrest

Is Mexico Becoming More Peaceful? Mexico Peace Index 2021

June 2, 2021

Conflict

A Look at Current Data from the Yemen Humanitarian Crisis

May 19, 2021

COVID-19

COVID-19 Crisis in India Analysed with Peace Metrics

April 30, 2021

MEXICO

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The Iron River: Flow of weapons across the US-Mexico border
Analysis, Mexico
May 26, 2025

The Iron River: Flow of weapons across the US-Mexico border

Mexico

Ten Least Peaceful States in Mexico in 2025

May 19, 2025

Mexico

Ten Most Peaceful States in Mexico in 2025

May 19, 2025

Mexico

Mexico’s Organised Criminal Landscape

May 13, 2025

Mexico

The Mexico-US border and its impact on peacefulness 

May 13, 2025

Mexico

Violence against women in Mexico 

May 13, 2025

Mexico

The Challenge of Drug Trafficking to Peace in Mexico 

May 13, 2025