Is the world becoming more or less peaceful? Helen Peacock, a peace activist, takes us through The Global Peace Index (GPI) and the core findings from the GPI, the annual report by the Institute of Economics and Peace. (www.Economicsandpeace.org)

The GPI is the leading measure of global peacefulness and presents a comprehensive data-driven analysis on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies.  The index covers 163 countries and territories comprising 99.7 per cent of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from respected sources, and measures the state of peace across three domains: the level of Societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and Militarization.

Helen Peacock is a Canadian peace activist and speaker who has presented the topic of World Peace to over 50 groups around the world (India, Russia, Australia, Sri Lanka, Canada, China, and  the United States). She is the founder of Pivot2Peace, a local peace group in Collingwood Ontario (https://www.pivot2peace.com ), a Chapter Coordinator for World Beyond War (https://worldbeyondwar.org ), and a Rotarian (https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/promoting-peace),  who served first as District Peace Chair and now as a member of the Board of the Rotary Action Group for Peace.  Helen was also part of  a small international think tank for Mutually Assured Survival started in 2022. (https://mutuallyassuredsurvival.world ).  In September, 2022 and November 2023, she served as a Civil Society Observer at the United Nations.