One of the Positive Peace pillars is critically predicated upon the efficacy of a modern education system in the production and distribution of human capital in a society.

The 2017 Positive Peace Conference brought together leading positive peace practitioners, policymakers, members of the media, and representatives of other fields to explore new opportunities and challenges for strengthening positive peace.

Though there have been attempts to curtail human rights violations, securing stability and peace for the North Korean people remains a nebulous task. The DPRK stands as one of the most repressive autocratic states today.

The 2017 Positive Peace Conference was co-hosted by the Institute for Economics and Peace and the Stanley Foundation at Stanford University.

The humanitarian industry is booming and yet it is in crisis, writes Gilles Carbonnier.

The logic follows that more employment reduces conflict risk, which in turn fosters the economic environment for investment and more jobs, which further increases stability that leads to more jobs and so on. However, the potential to realise this virtuous cycle is a lot more complicated.

The economic priorities of Sudan are distorted by the conflict. Sudan is a relatively poor country that spends far more lavishly on guns than on butter. The costs of the Darfur war are a serious public policy issue and an unaffordable drain on Sudan’s resources.

A fundamental initial step in effective programming for preventing violent extremism is to understand what is driving it.

“Violence shapes governance systems because it affects the distribution of economic, social and political power among social groups” writes Patricia Justino.

The numbers within 2017 Global Terrorism Index tell us one part of the story but the weight of the narrative lies elsewhere. It lies with the people living with the daily realities of the impact of violent extremism and the global war on terror.

Terrorism today has emerged as one of the most potent threats to global peace and security.