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‘Food Under Fire’: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Conflict and Hunger
Analysis
October 12, 2026

‘Food Under Fire’: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Conflict and Hunger

José Graziano da Silva, former FAO Director-General, reflects on a decade of debate on hunger and conflict — and proposes three concrete...

How the Global Transition to Renewables Impacts Conflict
Analysis
October 2, 2026

How the Global Transition to Renewables Impacts Conflict

The clean energy shift has made critical minerals strategic assets. Bridget Cameron, IEP Communications Intern, examines how this rising demand is...

A Blueprint for Revitalising Struggling Democracies
Analysis
September 30, 2026

A Blueprint for Revitalising Struggling Democracies

The Positive Peace Report 2026 finds that the concept and metric of Positive Peace offers an empirically based path to renewal for democracies...

PEACE

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‘Food Under Fire’: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Conflict and Hunger
Analysis, Peace, Positive Peace
October 12, 2026

‘Food Under Fire’: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Conflict and Hunger

Analysis

Positive Peace Deficits Show Where Violence Is Most Likely to Rise

October 7, 2026

Analysis

How the Global Transition to Renewables Impacts Conflict

October 2, 2026

Analysis

A Blueprint for Revitalising Struggling Democracies

September 30, 2026

Positive Peace

When Harmony and Peace Come Together Through Rugby League

August 19, 2026

Ambassadors

From the Nursery to Global Peace: Meet IEP Ambassador Akonjock Christina Arrah 

July 22, 2026

Peace

Antifragility in practice: what lived expertise actually builds

March 30, 2026

TERRORISM

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How the far right is recruiting youth online 
Development, Editorial, Terrorism, Youth
August 12, 2026

How the far right is recruiting youth online 

Artificial Intelligence

How terror groups are now using AI to improve attacks

July 15, 2026

Conflict

How AI is rewriting the rules of modern warfare

April 22, 2026

Global Terrorism Index

The Nihilistic Violent Extremist Ecosystem: A Global Threat

April 10, 2026

Global Terrorism Index

Jihadist Expansion in the Sahel and Threats to Coastal West Africa

April 2, 2026

Global Terrorism Index

Understanding Misinformation After a Terrorist Attack in the wake of Bondi Beach

March 26, 2026

Conflict

How the Iran Conflict Could Drive a New Wave of Terrorism in the West

March 25, 2026

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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How the Climate Crisis Is Becoming a Financial Stability Risk 
Climate, Development, Ecological Threat Report, Ecological Threats, Editorial
August 5, 2026

How the Climate Crisis Is Becoming a Financial Stability Risk 

COP30

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

November 14, 2025

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

AMBASSADORS

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From the Nursery to Global Peace: Meet IEP Ambassador Akonjock Christina Arrah 
Ambassadors, Peace, Positive Peace
July 22, 2026

From the Nursery to Global Peace: Meet IEP Ambassador Akonjock Christina Arrah 

Ambassadors

Meet Inspiring Female Peace Activists

March 6, 2026

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

MEXICO

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How Changing Drug Demand Could Reshape Violence in Mexico
Mexico
May 27, 2026

How Changing Drug Demand Could Reshape Violence in Mexico

Mexico

Mexico’s surging incarcerated population

May 27, 2026

Mexico

Why Fear Persists Even as Violence Declines in Mexico

May 20, 2026

Conflict

Cartel fragmentation and Mexico’s prospects for peace

May 19, 2026

Mexico

Ahead of World Cup, Mexico posts its biggest peace gains on record

May 19, 2026

Analysis

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

May 26, 2025

Mexico

Ten Least Peaceful States in Mexico in 2025

May 19, 2025

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