The question
Peace is experienced through livelihoods, community relationships, and the institutions people encounter in everyday life. The Ethiopian Peace Index pilot developed a locally calibrated framework with Interpeace and Ethiopiaās Ministry of Peace, bringing together 808 citizens, 101 kebele administrators, and 101 traditional leaders in three southern regions.
Formal and customary institutions were considered together, in a context shaped by ethnic, linguistic, and religious diversity and changes to regional administration. The different respondent groups make it possible to compare citizensā experiences with leadersā assessments rather than treating either as the complete picture.
Research approach
Multilevel models and resilience analysis connected individual and community conditions, examining how livelihoods, food security, and mental wellbeing relate to peacefulness.
The dedicated Gender Equality chapter used hierarchical regression to examine factors associated with support for equality, alongside financial empowerment, social norms, and domestic abuse. Gender was a substantive research theme within the broader peace-measurement framework.
What the research brings into view
The report connects peace with wider family, community, and institutional conditions. Its value is in identifying combinations of vulnerabilities and potential entry points, not reducing peace to a single national ranking. This was a three-region pilot, not a nationwide estimate or an evaluation proving a programmeās impact.
Read the full report, including the gender chapter on PDF pages 58-64.