What We Do
Research
The Institute generates and leads research, working in partnership with universities, research institutes, international business alliances, and NGOs worldwide.
The areas of research in which the Institute is engaged include:
- Statistical analyses to identify the structures and causes of peace;
- Economic assessment of the value of increased levels of peacefulness to global GDP;
- Definition and implication of the “Peace Industry”;
- Exploration of multinational attitudinal surveys and their relevance to societal peacefulness;
- Analyses of the relationship between peace, markets, costs and profit;
- Investigation of the world’s most peaceful industries;
- Development of statistical methods to determine how to calculate the probable impact of reducing levels of violence and increasing levels of peacefulness on a company’s market size.
Within this framework, the Institute also works to:
- Initiate wider debate and enable discussion through international conferences, publications and forums;
- Develop educational content for the study of peace within academic institutions;
- Provide companies with a better understanding of their risk profile and business development opportunities.
Click on the icon to download papers:
“Defining Peace Industries and Calculating the Potential Size of a Peace Gross World Product by Country and by Economic Sector” by John Tepper-Marlin and Jurgen Brauer, Economists for Peace and Security
“The Global Peace Index and Multi-National Attitude Research - A Review of the Relationship of Attitudes with the Global Peace Index”, Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland