On 15 June 2022, the Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP) came out with the Global Peace Index (GPI) 2022. Titled ‘Measuring peace in a complex world’, this 16^th edition unveils that the world is considerably less peaceful now than it was in 2008; indeed, the GPI records a deterioration in the average level of global peacefulness by 0.3% in 2021.

Despite a slight fall in peacefulness in the Sub-Saharan region, Mauritius has once again taken the top spot in the Sub-Saharan region (Global Ranking: 28^th). With a GPI score of 1.57, the country shows slight improvement, owing to a notable upswing in its Militarisation domain and UN peacekeeping funding.

The GPI 2022 ranks 163 independent states and territories according to their level of peacefulness across three domains:

• the level of societal Safety and Security;
• the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and
• the degree of Militarisation.

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