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The ISN happily welcomes the Institute for Economics and Peace as a new partner.

Based in Sydney, Australia, the Institute is an independent not-for-profit research organization dedicated to developing the inter-relationships between business, peace and economic development.

The Institute’s flagship project is the Global Peace Index (GPI), a yearly ranking listing 149 nations according to their ‘absence of violence’. The GPI is composed of qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, which combine factors internal to a country and external to it.

The Institute for Economics and Peace conducts research in the following areas:

• Statistical analyses to identify the structures and causes of peace;
• Economic assessment of the value of increased levels of peacefulness to global GDP;
• Definition and implication of the “Peace Industry”;
• Exploration of multinational attitudinal surveys and their relevance to societal peacefulness;
• Analyses of the relationship between peace, markets, costs and profit;
• Investigation of the world’s most peaceful industries;
• Development of statistical methods to determine how to calculate the probable impact of reducing levels of violence and increasing levels of peacefulness on a company’s market size.

In addition to research, the Institute also conducts education, generates dialogue, and publicizes the output of its activities with a view to impacting the public agenda.

We are very glad to have the Institute for Economics and Peace as part of the International Relations and Security Network and look forward to a fruitful cooperation.

Last week ISN Insights explored the following issues:

• The cheapness of assassinations in Mexico in a piece by Viridiana Rios

• The reintegration of female combatants in post-conflict environments in a piece by Katrin Planta

• Obama’s mixed scorecard on governmental transparency in an article by Shaun Waterman

• The state of Colombia’s FARC insurgency in a piece by Samuel Logan

• In the ISN Podcast, published each Friday, Vivian Brailey Fritschi interviewed Françoise Nicolas on the state of Asia-Euro dialogue.

In the week ahead we’re going to be looking at: US immigration reform, Fiji’s military dictatorship, Turkey’s constitutional referendum and German defense reform, among others.

Stay tuned and keep checking the ISN site each day for the newest ISN Insights piece.

Last week ISN Insights explored the following issues:

• Al-Shabaab’s strategy in Somalia in an article by Ken Menkhaus

• The taxation dilemma in Pakistan in a piece by Salma M Siddiqui

• The challenge of rebuilding Kyrgyzstan in an article by Roman Muzalevsky

• Venezuela’s elections in a piece by Markus Schultze-Kraft

• In ISN Podcasts, published each Friday, Vivian Brailey-Fritschi interviewed Marta Szpala about the Bosnian elections

In the week ahead we’re going to be looking at: The booming assassination business in Mexico, the preliminary findings of the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Commission, the reintegration of female combatants and FARC’s organizational challenges in the wake of a key leader’s assassination.

Keep checking the ISN website each day for the newest edition of ISN Insights and remember to check the blog on Mondays – we’ll be highlighting our past and future offerings at the start of the week.