Steve Killelea

But working with the poorest of the poor, I ended up spending time in war zones, near post-war zones, a lot of the most stressed countries in the world because that's where the poorest people are.

Mm-hmm.

And I was walking through northeast Kivu in the Congo, which is probably one of the more violent places in the world.

And I suddenly started to think, well, what are the most peaceful nations in the world?

And was there anything I could do?

learned from that to bring to my projects.

Searched the internet, couldn't find a thing.

And that's how the Global Peace Index was born.

That poses a really simple question.

Because if a simple businessman like myself can be walking through Africa and wonder what are the most peaceful nations in the world and hasn't been done, then how much do we know about peace?

As a businessman, if you can't measure something, can you really understand it?

If you can't measure it, how do you know whether your actions are helping

you were hindering in achieving your goals.

You don't.

So like men, as I started to look into it more, I realized we didn't really study peace.

Even when you went to a peace and conflict center or peace center, they were mainly studying conflict and how to stop it.

And the study of peace is fundamentally different than the study of war or conflict.

It's the things which it creates that

to create a highly peaceful society are different than the things you need to stop conflict.

And the best way of looking at it is just a simple analogy.