The GPI covers 99.7 per cent of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources and measures the state of peace using three thematic domains: the level of Societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and the degree of Militarisation. In addition to presenting the findings from the 2017 GPI, this year’s report includes analysis of the Positive Peace factors that are most important for transitioning to higher levels of peace and how deteriorations in Positive Peace are linked to the rise of populism in Europe. The report also assesses the trends in peacekeeping and militarisation, including a cost/benefit analysis highlighting the positive economic benefits from early peacebuilding interventions.

This is the twelfth edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness. Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI 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. The results of the 2018 GPI find that the global level of peace has deteriorated by 0.27 per cent in the last year, marking the fourth successive year of deteriorations. Ninety-two countries deteriorated, while 71 countries improved. The 2018 GPI reveals a world in which the tensions, conflicts, and crises that emerged in the past decade remain unresolved, especially in the Middle East, resulting in this gradual, sustained fall in peacefulness.

El Índice de Paz México (IPM) 2019 proporciona una medición integral de los niveles de paz en México. El IPM se basa en la metodología del Índice de Paz Global, la más reconocida medición de la paz en el mundo, que ha sido elaborado por el IEP cada año desde 2007. El principal hallazgo del informe de este año es que, ante la escalada de violencia, el gobierno ha invertido en el sistema judicial menos de lo que se requiere. Actualmente, el gasto del gobierno en las fuerzas policiales y el sistema judicial como porcentaje del PIB, es apenas la mitad del promedio de los demás países que integran la Organización para la Cooperación y el Desarrollo Económicos (OCDE). Aunado a ello, únicamente en 7% de los delitos se abrieron carpetas de investigación en 2017 y menos de 3% terminaron en una sentencia, lo que arrojó una tasa de impunidad de 97%.