How a country treats its women could be an important factor in understanding how it treats its neighbors, suggests a new study by a Brigham Young University-led research team. Their results are ...

Which parts of the world are the safest, and which are the most dangerous? Each year, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) publishes its Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent ...

Given the economic slowdowns, threats of Russian revanchism, and entrenching autocracies across the region, there would seem little grounds for optimism girding Central Asia’s broader near-term ...

The Global Peace Index (GPI) from the renowned Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) assesses the state of global peace annually. It evaluates world peace based on 23 criteria, focusing primarily on ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. A ten-year deterioration in peace has largely been driven by intensifying conflicts in the ...

Gratitude helps us meet our lives with more peacefulness. This has been a difficult, stressful time for most of us - adults and children. It is easy to understand why the uncertainty and dangers we ...

MinnPost’s reporting is always free, but it isn’t free to produce. We rely on donations from our readers to fund our independent journalism. The Institute for Economics and Peace ranks 163 nations and ...