Featured Peacebuilding Group: Institute for Economics and Peace

Posted byDavid J. SmithPosted inFeatured Peacebuilding Group, Peacebuilding, Public Education, World AffairsTags:,

This week’s Featured Peacebuilding Group is the Institute for Economics and Peace.

The Institute for Economics and Peace is a think tank dedicated to developing metrics to analyze peace and to quantify its economic value. It does this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analyzing country level risk and understanding positive peace.

 

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Many know the institute from its annual Global Peace Index. The 2018 index was published on June 6, 2018.

The research is used extensively by governments, academic institutions, think tanks, non-governmental organizations and by intergovernmental institutions such as the OECD, The Commonwealth Secretariat, the World Bank and the United Nations.

For more about the institute, click here.

Published by David J. Smith

I am a career coach, consultant, and head of a not for profit - the Forage Center - that offers humanitarian education training. I also teach at George Mason University and Drexel University. A one time lawyer, I spent many years teaching in a community college where I was a Fulbright U.S. Scholar teaching in Estonia. I'm the author of Peace Jobs: A Student's Guide to Starting a Career Working for Peace (IAP 2016). I've been married to my best friend for over 31 years and we have two well adjusted adult children who teach me something new everyday. I live in Rockville, Maryland.

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