The Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP) and the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) are pleased to welcome the International Geneva community and partners world wide to the Geneva Launch of the Global Peace Index (GPI) Report 2025.
While global peacefulness is at his lowest point in more than a decade, the number of conflicts worldwide and the economic impact of violence are soaring. Most of the leading factors and indicators which precede major conflicts are at their highest level since WWII. This situation is depicted on the background of a fragmented world in which more and more powers are becoming influential on the international scene as well as of more countries increasing their levels of militarisation against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tensions, increasing conflict, the breakup of traditional alliances and rising economic uncertainty.
This is the 19th edition of the Global Peace Index, which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness, covering 99.7% of the world’s population. Produced by the IEP, the Index is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness. This report presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies. It uses 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators to measure the state of peace across three domains: the level of Societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and the degree of Militarisation.
Speakers
- Mr Itonde Kakoma, President and CEO, Interpeace
- Ms Melissa Dobner-Mujanayi, GCSP NISC 2025 Graduate/ Federal Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Austria
- Ms Olga BIMBASHI, GCSP NISC 2025 Graduate/ Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Palestine
Closing Remarks
Ambassador Julien Thöni, Permanent Representative for Disarmament, and Deputy Permanent Representative of Switzerland to the United Nations and International Organizations in Geneva
Moderator
Ms Annika Hilding Norberg, Head of Peace Operations and Peacebuilding, GCSP
Presentation of Key Findings: Mr Serge Stroobants, Director, Europe and MENA, Institute of Economics and Peace
