Launched by the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute and the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen's, in partnership with Belfast City Council, the Global Peace Index is the world's leading measure of global peacefulness and is produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP).

Steve Killelea AM, Founder and Executive Chairman of IEP, was the keynote speaker.

Pictured (L-R) are: Enda Young, Programme Director at the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute; Professor John Brewer, Acting Director of the Senator George J. Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice; Steve Killelea, Founder and Executive Chairman of the Institute for Economics and Peace; Dr Joanne Murphy, interim Director at the William J. Clinton Leadership Institute; Professor Adrienne Scullion, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences,; and Lord Mayor of Belfast, Councillor Deirdre Hargey.