Overview

Today, across the peacebuilding and peacemaking worlds, the idea of ‘peace’ is framed in two ways:

  1. Negative peace: the absence of violence and conflict

  2. Positive peace: the attitudes, structures and institutions required to create and sustain peaceful societies

An actionable measure of Positive Peace is the eight-pillar framework developed by the Institute for Economics and Peace. These eight component parts systemically interact to build a societies’ attitudes, structures and institutions that create sustainable peace.

The eight pillars are derived through empirically analyzing an estimated 25,000 data series to determine which factors are most highly correlated with the absence of conflict and violence.

 

Positive Peace Pillars, developed by the Institute for Economics & Peace