Measuring peace
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The Platform will organize an expert event that will bring together different communities of practice, amongst which are INGO’s and the Institute for Economics and Peace (developer of the Global Peace Index), to interactively discuss the challenges we encounter in producing a viable and useable index and perhaps more importantly, the challenges and opportunities we encounter in implementing the findings of these indexes into improved policies and programming. What are the success and failure stories and where do we see concrete room for improvement? The international participants of this event have experience with developing indexes from different communities of practice and are all involved in research, policies and programming on security & justice issues.
Background
The last decade has seen a tremendous growth of the collection and processing of viable data on which the different stakeholders and communities of practice base their policies and intervention programs. Data sets, indexes, set of specific indicators and the likes to collect and analyze information based on different indicators.
At first glance it seems that this growth in available data suggests consequential improvement of policies and programs in the field of security & justice. However, the fields of security and rule of law are notoriously difficult to monitor and measure and every index tells us another story. Depending on the specific indicators, length and level of collection we only get a partial or even different view of a topic.
In order to safeguard progress in these fields constant knowledge development and adaptability of intervention programs and policies is needed.
The difficulties, diversity and specifics surrounding these indexes have led to the following questions:
Can we measure peace; and if so, are we using the different available data sets and indexes effectively enough to ensure that knowledge forms the backbone of our policies and programs in these unruly themes?
This event will precede the official launch of the Global Peace Index 2016 organized by The Hague Institute and the Institute for Economics and Peace to be held on Friday morning 24 June at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, in the Hague. Please consult this link for more information about the launch and registration.