The services and construction sectors respond better to improvements in Positive Peace, while agriculture and manufacturing are not as reactive, research has found.

Findings from the Institute for Economics and Peace showing the dynamic correlation between Positive Peace and macro-economic indicators suggests corporate activity is strongly associated with the attitudes and institutions that lead to peaceful societies.

It is in the context of increasing violence that political scientists and philosophers who raise the question about the possibility of a nonkilling and nonviolent society become ever so relevant, and it is the affirmative nonkilling approach to Positive Peace, that can make a real world difference in these difficult times.

One of the most promising developments in peacemaking recently has been the exploration of the use of the eight pillars model of positive peace, as developed by IEP, in an increasing number of areas where violent conflict has prevailed