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What are the best arguments for putting peace on the table? Peace is Quantifiable

“The Institute for Economics and Peace is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute dedicated to building a greater understanding of the key drivers and measures of peace and to identifying the economic benefits that increased peacefulness can deliver”.

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What are the best arguments for putting peace on the table? Peace is Quantifiable

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  1. “The Institute for Economics and Peace is an independent, not-for-profit, research institute dedicated to building a greater understanding of the key drivers and measures of peace and to identifying the economic benefits that increased peacefulness can deliver” • What are the best arguments for putting peace on the table? • Peace is Quantifiable • Peace has tremendous economic benefits

  2. What do you think are the most important arguments for the role of early childhood programs in peacebuilding? Most important arguments at the macro level: ECD as a global priority in all situations, post-conflict or otherwise • Can we measure peace? • What is the relationship between peace and education? • Does this relationship hold with regard to early childhood programs?

  3. Positive Peace Institutions, Arrangements, and Attitudes associated with peaceful environments • Negative peace • Measures • Crime • Violence • Military • War “Peace” How do we define peace and how can we measure it? Positive Peace Index Global Peace Index

  4. 23 Indicators

  5. How is the GPI put together?

  6. GPI 2012 Results The 10 Least Peaceful Countries The 10 Most Peaceful Countries

  7. From Negative to Positive Peace GLOBAL PEACE INDEX Health Education Spending Welfare Human Development Corruption Business Environment Governance Stability Fragility Economic Indicators Human Rights Infant Mortality Inequality Gender Women’s Rights Human Capital Investment Democracy Etc. VS

  8. Positive Peace: The Pillars of Peace • Sound business environment • Well functioning government • Equitable distribution of resources • Peace and Resilience

  9. Education Spending (% of GDP) Primary School Enrolment Ratio Relationship Between Peace and Education Secondary School Enrolment Ratio Mean Years of Schooling

  10. - Not enough data to draw any firm conclusions Peace and ECD?

  11. - However, link between ECD and human capital is well established Peace and ECD?

  12. ECD IMPACT ON PEACE Direct: Impact of ECD eacebuilding measures on post-conflict environments, fostering more peaceful societies Indirect: Impact on long term GDP growth. GDP per capita is one of the factors most strongly correlated with the Global Peace Index The Long Term Effects of Investment in ECD

  13. Peacebuilding efforts can be measured at the macro level using proxies like the Global Peace Index Using the GPI, we can find the environments associated with peacefulness Education is a critical factor in fostering peacefulness Early childhood programs seem to have the greatest long-term return Summary

  14. MEASURING PEACE, MEASURING ECD 1) How useful/accurate are existing ECD metrics? 2) What can or should be measured with regard to ECD programs? 3) Are appropriate ECD metrics even possible, particularly for measuring outcomes in the short term?

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