For a world that sometimes seems filled with war, hatred and violence, a dozen Iowa State University faculty members have come together to write about the topic of peace. The book, “Building Positive ...

AMES, IA – When we think about people who have cultivated a more peaceful world, where do our minds wander? Do we see a montage of people linking arms during the Selma-to-Montgomery March or Indian ...

Peace and environmental sustainability — two lofty but vital goals for all countries — are known to be intrinsically related, according to Dahlia Simangan, associate professor at the Graduate School ...

Today, the misery of war is all too striking in places such as Syria, Yemen, Tigray, Myanmar and Ukraine. It can come as a surprise to learn that there are scores of sustainably peaceful societies ...

A global peace advocate and founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), Steve Killelea, has underscored the importance of peace to national development, noting that countries improving in ...

Conflict and environmental risks are both on the rise around the world, and they’re often connected in complex ways. In the past five years, the number of global conflicts has doubled. At the same ...

This post was co-written with Larry S. Liebovitch, Ph.D. For decades, international peace researchers have relied on comprehensive indices like the Global Peace Index and Positive Peace Index to ...

2025 marks the release of the first joint Gallup and World Health Summit report, “State of the World’s Emotional Health.” Gallup has conducted 145,000 interviews over two decades across 144 countries, ...

Peace and environmental sustainability -- two lofty but vital goals for all countries -- are known to be intrinsically related, according to new research. However, researchers still tend to ...