Positive Peace improved 2.4 percent globally in the past decade. It is the attitudes, institutions, and structures that create and sustain peaceful societies.
Benefits of Positive Peace Index- PPI
From 2009 to 2020, the per capita GDP of countries that improved in the PPI rose by an average of 3.1 percent per year. This compares
with 0.4 percent per year for the other nations. Inflation in countries where the PPI improved was on average three times less volatile than where Positive Peace deteriorated in the past decade.
Household consumption in nations where Positive Peace improved grew two times faster from 2009 to 2020 than where the PPI
deteriorated. In countries with a substantial Positive Peace deficit in 2009, almost 80 percent deteriorated in the GPI in the subsequent decade. A Positive Peace deficit is where the actual peacefulness of a country is substantially higher than what its
levels of Positive Peace would suggest.
The Pillars of Positive Peace
There are 8 Pillars ofPositive Peace Index. Well-functioning Government, Sound Business Environment, Equitable Distribution of Resources, Acceptance of the Rights of Others, Good Relations with Neighbours. Free Flow of Information, High Levels of Human Capital, and Low Levels of Corruption are other parameters.
