EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The last year has seen significant global challenges, including an unprecedented level of humanitarian need, rising inequality and exclusion, growing climate change impacts, and increasing threats to our shared security. Nevertheless, the international community has taken important steps in addressing these challenges by implementing the recent bold commitments to foster sustainable peace.

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This research brief, produced by the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP), presents new and ground-breaking approaches to forecasting and conceptualising the risk of conflict.

The 2017 Global Peace Index finds that the world became more peaceful in the last year, however, over the last decade it has become significantly less peaceful.

The GTI measures the impact of terrorism in 163 countries. To account for the lasting effects of terrorism, each country is given a score that represents a five year weighted average.