In September 2015 in New York, world leaders agreed on the transformational 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, with an ambitious set of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and targets. SDG 16 calls on the world to achieve peace and inclusive societies. PRIO is committed to doing research for a more peaceful world. By working with a wide ra nge of UN agencies, national governments, national statistical offices, and NGOs from around the world, PRIO strives to support the SDG agenda.
How violent is the world today compared to earlier? Where are the conflict hotspots and where were they? The map shows bubbles proportional to 'conflict related deaths' per 100,000 inhabitants. Data on conflict related deaths come from UCDP's armed conflict, non-state conflict, and one sided violence datasets, and from PRIO's Lacina-Gleditsch battle deaths data.
PRIO is a founding member of the SDG 16 Data Initiative. The SDG16 Data Initiative is a collective project by a consortium of organisations seeking to support the open tracking of the global commitments made by more than 194 countries on peace, justice, and strong institutions.
PRIO is also a member of the Praia Group on Governance Statistics constituted by the UN Statistical Commission and led by the National Statistical Office of Cabo Verde. The Praia group on governance statistics, whose purpose would be to encourage countries to produce governance statistics based on sound and documented methodologies and to address the conceptualization, methodology and instruments needed to produce such statistics. The Praia group will produce a handbook on governance statistics for national statistical offices. Under the Praia umbrella PRIO is focusing its work on how to measure conflict and violence.
PRIO is a founding member of the SDG 16 Data Initiative - a collective project by a consortium of organizations seeking to support the open tracking of the global commitments made by more than 194 countries on peace, justice, and strong institutions.
The initiative now launches it's first Global Report - the formal launch happened at the UN High-level Political Forum last week.
Report - External Series
Report - External Series
Journal Article in International Area Studies Review
PRIO Paper
Report - External Series
Journal Article in Journal of the Korean Regional Development Association
PRIO Paper
Report - External Series
Conflict Trends