Peace & Governance
Durable institutions and long-term societal resilience
How can people live and work together?
Start with the big picture. Open the sections below to see the evidence and future goals.
81 yrs · Age of the widest human institution
United Nations age; editorial target: 12,000 years
Steps toward the future
Explore the milestone ladder
- doneA global forum for all states1945LEVEL 2
- nextNo interstate warscurrently 8LEVEL 2
- farUnited EarthCooperative barLEVEL 4
- farA polity stable for a thousand yearsLEVEL 4
- farGalaxy-scale institutions and recovery planningLEVEL 4
Human dimensions
Meaning & spirituality ↗ · Knowledge, heritage & community ↗
Related measures within Humanity.
Action path
This near-term path is shared with the corresponding Cooperative track.
Level 2: zero interstate wars; warheads below 5,000
Explore the possible steps
Possible steps
- End the largest war: Russia–Ukraine is ~62% of battle deaths
- Rebuild arms control: a US–Russia cap and a first framework including China
- Coalitions with teeth on specific problems (fusion, pandemics, AI verification)
- Interdependence deep enough that war is unaffordable
Whether general AI arrives into a world that has built verification and coordination capacity, or one that has not
Unconventional levers: AI-assisted verification and satellite monitoring, conflict early-warning markets
What to watch
UCDP interstate conflict count; SIPRI deployed warheads; states party to any new arms-control instrument
Related snapshot measures
These are the available measures in the supplied dataset; they may be proxies for the leading indicators above.
Unlocks
The critical path. Moving Peace from 0.20 to 0.40 lifts F more than finishing AI.
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- Biodiversity
- The variety of living things.
- GW
- Gigawatts: a unit of power. Capacity is what equipment can produce at its rated output.