The Fund for Peace

What The Fund for Peace does

The Fund for Peace is a non-profit research and educational organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., founded in 1957, working to prevent violent conflict and promote sustainable security. It operates with an 11-50 person headcount and a global mandate, organized around three programmatic pillars: partnerships (multi-stakeholder dialogue), data (conflict early warning), and training (capacity building for local communities and practitioners).

The organization's analytical products are anchored by two flagship indices. The Fragile States Index is an annual ranking measuring state fragility worldwide. The State Resilience Index, launched in 2022, complements the FSI by measuring the extent to which a country can prepare for, manage, and recover from crises across 154 countries, organized into seven pillars (Inclusion, Social Cohesion, State Capacity, Individual Capabilities, Environment and Ecology, Economy, and Civic Space) and dozens of sub-pillars. Underlying these indices is a proprietary set of data-driven platforms that ingest and parse large volumes of qualitative and quantitative data to produce conflict and resilience assessments. The 2022 launch introduced the SRI Dashboard for interactive public exploration and the Crisis Sensitivity Simulator methodology for forward-looking scenario analysis, with published white papers documenting the analytical framework.

Commercially, The Fund for Peace operates as a non-profit and does not sell products or licenses; no public pricing exists. It is funded through grants, partnerships, and capacity-building programs, serving governments and public-sector bodies as the primary segment, alongside civil society organizations, regional bodies, and multilateral organizations such as UN agencies. Revenue figures are not disclosed; the most recent documented funding inflow is a $400,000 grant from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation in December 2023.

Name

The Fund for Peace

Legal name

The Fund for Peace

Website

https://fundforpeace.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

The Fund for Peace is a 1957-founded non-profit research and educational organization in Washington, D.C., that produces the Fragile States Index and State Resilience Index to measure state fragility and resilience across 154 countries for governments, civil society, and multilateral organizations.

Ownership category

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Product category

Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding Research

NAICS

Social Advocacy Organizations (8133), Human Rights Organizations (813311)

SIC

International Affairs (9721)

akta.pro primary industry

Peace, Security & Arms Control Organizations (BPADAAAF)

akta.pro secondary industries

Peace, Security Sector Reform & Stabilization Programs (BPADABAH), Humanitarian-Development-Peace Nexus & Resilience Programming (BPADAEAK)

Keywords

• Conflict early warning
• Fragility assessment
• Peacebuilding research
• State resilience analysis
• Capacity building training

Headquarters

HQ city

Washington

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels2 records

Core offering

The Fund for Peace produces data-driven indices and analytical platforms that measure state fragility and resilience (Fragile States Index and State Resilience Index covering 154 countries), and complements these tools with training, partnerships, and capacity-building programs for governments and practitioners working on conflict prevention and peacebuilding.

Product overview

The Fund for Peace offers a portfolio of complementary indices and data-driven technological platforms for conflict early warning and peacebuilding. The core offerings consist of the Fragile States Index (FSI) and the State Resilience Index (SRI), which work alongside each other to identify both vulnerabilities and capacities in countries. The SRI is supported by the SRI Dashboard, an interactive visualization tool, and the Crisis Sensitivity Simulator methodology. These products are complemented by data-driven technological platforms that parse massive amounts of qualitative and quantitative data. The company also provides training and capacity building programs alongside these analytical tools.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Fragile States Index: Annual ranking measuring fragility of states using conflict assessment and social, economic, and political indicators
• State Resilience Index
• Crisis Sensitivity Simulator

Quantifiable outcome

• Coverage of 154 countries through the State Resilience Index

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Large, established think tank producing global policy research including on conflict and governance. Comparable in audience and policy-research orientation, but broader in scope and substantially larger in scale.
• Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs): Long-established international affairs research institute. Comparable in serving governments and multilaterals with policy research on peace and security, though it is broader in mandate and larger in scale.
• United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) - Human Development Report Office: Produces the Human Development Index and related country-level development metrics. Comparable as a globally referenced, multi-pillar country index publisher, with significantly larger scale and policy mandate.

Direct peers

• Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP): Provides the most widely used global datasets on organized violence and conflict. Comparable as a conflict-data producer whose outputs feed policy and research communities similar to FSI/SRI users.
• Institute for Economics & Peace (IEP): Producer of the Global Peace Index, a country-level peace measurement product. Directly comparable because it is a research organization publishing an annually updated, multi-country fragility/peace index with global reach.
• Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI): Independent resource on peace and security producing globally referenced datasets and indices. Comparable as a long-tenured, Sweden-based peace and security research institute with similar funding model and global policy audience.
• Bertelsmann Foundation (Transformative Index / BTI): Publishes the Bertelsmann Transformation Index assessing political and economic transformation in developing/transition countries. Highly comparable as a multi-country, annually updated governance/fragility index product.
• International Crisis Group: Independent nonprofit producing global conflict analysis and policy recommendations. Highly comparable to The Fund for Peace in mission, audience (governments and multilaterals), and deliverable type (research-driven conflict early warning).
• Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO): Leading peace and conflict research institute producing datasets and analysis on armed conflict and state fragility. Directly comparable as a research-driven, grant-funded organization publishing widely cited conflict/fragility indicators.

Peers

• World Bank (Fragility, Conflict and Violence Group):

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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