Failed States Index The Fund for Peace

Failed States Index ranks the risk of state failure of 76 countries. Articles from global and regional open-sourced media were fed into the Conflict Assessment System Tool (CAST), which is used to calculate the score of the index. A higher score of the index indicates a higher risk of a state failure. The Fund for Peace was founded in 1957 by investment banker Randolph Compton, it is a nonprofit educational, research and advocacy organization based in Washington. Its mission is to prevent war and alleviate the conditions that cause war. Since 1996, it has specialized primarily on reducing conflict stemming from weak and failing states.

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