March 2011 Blog Posts (3)

Save USIP - Update & Sign the Petition!

In February, the U.S. House voted to cut all funding for the United States Institute of Peace, which would essentially eliminate one of our government’s primary platforms for international peacebuilding.

So far already 8,000 people have signed the USIP petition. Please visit here - http://bit.ly/SaveUSIP

Our good friend and partner, Chic Dambach, President of the Alliance for Peacebuilding, sends the… Continue

Added by Aaron Voldman on March 25, 2011 at 4:40pm — 1 Comment

United States Peace Index to be Released April 6

The first national peace index: the United States Peace Index 2011

In April the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) will launch the inaugural US Peace Index which will rank the 50 states of America by their peacefulness. The US Peace Index will be the first in a series of country-based peace indices that will be developed by the Institute in order to build greater understanding of the status and key drivers of peacefulness by district, state or region.…

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Added by Institute for Economics & Peace on March 16, 2011 at 1:39pm — No Comments