Helping you gain clarity and improve collaboration to achieve a more peaceful future
Why EPI?
With conflicts increasing and resources shrinking globally, it's more important than ever to use and invest in approaches that work. Figuring out what works, however, can be a challenge. Resourcing evidence-based approaches can be difficult. It's time intensive and often demands specialized personnel and resources.
EPI exists to help.
Our goal is to serve the peacebuilding field by providing tools, resources, and connections that help the field act more effectively, embrace impactful approaches, and learn together. Everything we make is for you—from our public datasets to our open-source dashboards to our resource network.
Join us in setting a higher standard for peacebuilding—together.
The Imbalance of Conflict and Peace
$74 Billion in Peacebuilding Aid
From 2010 to 2019, countries spent around $74 billion on peacebuilding, according to the UN. This figure excludes spending by NGOs and individuals. Despite seeming substantial, these investments are small compared to the trillions lost to war annually, prompting calls for increased peacebuilding funding.
$10-20 trillion in conflict costs
Warfare costs $10-20 trillion per year, with only a fraction of that amount spent on peacebuilding efforts.
27% Increase in Global Conflict Last Year
The conflict has grown by over 27% worldwide in the past year, according to local event data (ACLED) which accounts for variations over time.
Our Dashboards are interactive tools designed to empower the peacebuilding community with reliable, easily accessible data. By centralizing critical information, it helps stakeholders make informed decisions, drive effective interventions, and track progress towards peace.
Dashboards
We work better when we work together. EPI's resource network will enable researchers, evaluators, policymakers, and practitioners to connect and form partnerships to enhance your work in creating a more peaceful world.
Resource Network
The Effective Peace Prize is an annual prize to recognize and advance innovative, scientifically rigorous peacebuilding interventions. The prize supports efforts to gather and apply evidence on effective methods for reducing organized violence and deaths from armed conflict.
The Effective Peace Prize
We're committed to helping advance evidence-based approaches in peacebuilding. We help fund projects and efforts to address gaps or needs in the data collection, analysis, or use across the peacebuilding field.
