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EPS, a UN-registered NGO, is an international network of thirteen affiliated organizations promoting economic analysis and appropriate action for peace, security and the world economy. We work locally, regionally and internationally to reduce the military burden, and to effect policy changes that can build a more just and peaceful future.

EPS Journal

EPS sponsors the peer-reviewed Economics of Peace and Security Journal (EPSJ). The journal addresses economic aspects of peace and security. Issues are published in April and October. Lastest issues are subscription only.  All articles and issues become open-access 12 months after initial publication. 

Economists on Peace

The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and EPS co-host the Economists on Peace blog, in which various leading expert on economics and peace discuss issues that are pressing and relevant to the policy, practice and theory of economics and development in conflict and crisis-affected contexts.

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Recent Posts

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Latest insights

04 Nov 2018
Contrast between poor an rich neighbourhood

Inequality in the Age of Extremism

We may be forgiven for describing our contemporary world as mired in a new dark age of extremism.

22 Jul 2018

A tax on the arms trade to fund peacebuilding?

An old idea has recently come up again in the search for new funds for peacebuilding.

23 May 2017

North Korea - on the brink?

US President Trump has vowed to boost US military capabilities in South–East Asia to counter both North Korea’s dangerous nuclear policy, and its recent missile tests.

12 Apr 2017
Colombia peace deal

Using Evidence to Build Effective Transitional Justice Policies in Colombia

The historic signing of the peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) on September 26, followed by the unexpected narrow rej

01 Nov 2016
Picture of a boy riding a bicycle in a refugee camp

The long-run benefits of open doors to war refugees

In the current debate on asylum policies in Europe, the focus lies strongly on short-run costs and benefits. Whilst proponents of generous admission policies for Syrian refugees argu

18 Jun 2015
bricks with the flags of bric countries

BRICS: realistic alternative with a stuttering motor

BRICS has recently lost some of its previous dynamic. This is partly due to reduced economic growth, compared to the previous phenomenal growth rates.

25 May 2015
Picture of crowds protesting

Do government transfers reduce civil unrest?

The past few years have seen an increase in civil unrest across the globe, from food riots to the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement in the United States and other countries.

11 Mar 2015
mural with two hands symbolising solidarity

Money changes everything? Poverty and deprivation in Northern Ireland

To think that deprivation and poverty are one and the same is, arguably, a limit of the imagination on the part of those for whom hardship is an abstract concept, rather than a day-to-day

About EPS

EPS, a UN-registered NGO, is an international network of thirteen affiliated organizations promoting economic analysis and appropriate action for peace, security and the world economy.