Health, the environment, clean water, clean air and strong, healthy societies have often been viewed as social goods that defy a market value and because capital markets struggle to assign a dollar value, investment to protect, maintain or increase these social goods becomes difficult. 

Similarly, society struggles to value and invest in peace. 

One of the challenges surrounding Peace is the fact that it hasn’t always been measurable. For over a decade now, PII has been working to establish a metrics-based approach to measure and price the value of peace.

The result was the Hague Peace Data Standard.

We’re kicking off 2020 with our first event of the year coming up next month.

From the 19th-25th of February, we’ll be in the City of the Hague hosting a workshop titled ‘Measuring Peace: The Hague Peace Data Standard’ to explore the different factors that go into measuring peace.