Steve Killelea - 10th Anniversary of the Global Peace Index: What can we learn from measuring peace?

10th Anniversary of the Global Peace Index:
What can we learn from measuring peace?

Tuesday , April 5th 
3:00pm – 4:30pm 
Metropolitan Building Room 5183

Over the past 10 years, the Institute for Economics and Peace’s ground-breaking Global Peace Index, which uses 23 measures to assess the peacefulness of 162 countries, has helped shift the world’s conversation about peace to a positive, achievable and tangible measures of human wellbeing and progress. The Index is included in thousands of university courses, is referenced by international media and used by the world’s major multilateral organizations including the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development. What drove the Institute to create the Global Peace Index? What are its main findings? Is the world becoming more or less peaceful, and why? What are major opportunities for the world to become more peaceful over the next decade? Major challenges? Please join Steve Killelea, Founder of the Global Peace Index and Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics and Peace, as he presents key findings and reflections from 10 years of innovative peace research. 

BIOGRAPHY
Steve Killelea is an accomplished entrepreneur in high technology business development and at the forefront of philanthropic activities focused on sustainable development and peace. After successfully building two international software companies, Steve decided to dedicate most of his time and fortune to sustainable development and peace.
Steve has always had a strong passion for sustainable development, and in 2000 established The Charitable Foundation (TCF), which specializes in working with the poorest communities of the world. TCF is one of the largest private overseas aid organizations in Australia. It aims to provide life-changing interventions reaching as many people as possible with special emphasis on targeting the poorest of the poor. TCF is active in East and Central Africa and parts of Asia and has substantially impacted the lives of over 2.3 million people.
In 2007 Steve founded the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), an international think tank dedicated to building a greater understanding of the interconnection between business, peace and economics with particular emphasis on the economic benefits of peace. IEP’s ground-breaking research includes the Global Peace Index, the world’s leading measure of peacefulness. Steve’s founding of IEP was recognized as one of the 50 most impactful philanthropic gifts in Australia’s history.