Global peacefulness has deteriorated for the ninth year in a row, with deaths from global conflict increasing by 96% to 238 000 and Ukraine recording the largest deterioration, falling 14 places to ...

In May 2007, Australian businessman Steve Killea initiated the development of a composite index aimed at quantifying the level of peacefulness among countries. This index, known as the Global Peace ...

How a country treats its women could be an important factor in understanding how it treats its neighbors, suggests a new study by a Brigham Young University-led research team. Their results are ...

Ukraine's score in Global Peace Index in 2020 improved by 0.22 or 7.6%, to 2.66, which recorded the largest increase in peacefulness globally among 163 countries, according to the Global Peace Index ...

LONDON, June 28, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Today marks the launch of the 17 th edition of the Global Peace Index from international think-tank, the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP). Key results Deaths ...

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Given the economic slowdowns, threats of Russian revanchism, and entrenching autocracies across the region, there would seem little grounds for optimism girding Central Asia’s broader near-term ...

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