Ep. 404: Is our Global Peace Index sinking?
Guest: Steve Killelea, Founder and CEO of Institute of Economics and Peace
With the war in Ukraine, the ongoing civil war in Afghanistan, the civil war in Ethiopia, the drug war in Mexico and civil war in Yemen – plus more than 17 other countries were terrorist insurgencies regualarly erupt in gunfire, bombings and death – is the world becoming more violent?
According to the Global Peace Index, “Yes. Over the past 14 years peacefulness has fallen, with the average country score deteriorating by 3.2 per cent.”
According to the GPI, Canada and North America have seen significant changes. Steve Killelea, the CEO of the Institute of Economics and Peace, states: “Canada went from the world’s 8th most peaceful country in 2021 to 12th in 2022. This is the first substantial deterioration in peacefulness in more than decade. And North America recorded the second largest deterioration of any region in the 2022 GPI; the level of peacefulness in the US is now lower than at any time since 2008, with civil unrest being the primary driver of the deterioration.”
Stuart McNish invited Steve Killelea the CEO of the Institute of Economics and Peace to join him for a Conversation That Matters about the troubling and deteriorating trend, its economic impacts, and what can be done.
