It was a pleasure to host Mr Steve Killelea AM at the WSU Open Forum on: Positive Peace – What creates inclusiveness? Steve is an accomplished entrepreneur inhigh technology business development and his custemers include: Visa, Mastercard and American Express; stock exchanges in the New York, London and Hong Kong and most of the world’s ATM’s.
Steve has used his wealth to finance philanthropic activities focused on sustainable development and peace. He is the founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institute_for_Economics_and_Peace – an international think tank dedicated to building a greater understanding of the interconnection between business, peace and economics. The Global Peace Index study ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Peace_Index ), launched in May 2007 attempts to rank the world’s nations’ and regions’ peacefulness. The Institute was recently ranked in the top 15 most impactful think tanks in the world on the Global Go to Think Tank Index.
The 2015 Global Terrorism Index will be released on 17 November. Now in its third year, the report provides a detailed analysis of the changing trends in terrorism across 162 countries, over the last 15 years. It investigates the patterns of terrorism by geographic activity, methods of attack, organisations involved and the national economic and political context. Socio-economic indicators are also analysed to determine the key underlying factors that have the closest statistical relationship to terrorism.
For more about the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) see the Attachment.