In the most recent Global Peace Index, published on June 28, 2023, Sierra Leone surpassed Ghana as the most peaceful country in West Africa.

Ghana has also dropped from second to fourth place in Africa in the 2022 index this year.

Commenting on the current index, Rev Dr. Ernest Adu-Gyamfi, Chairman of the Governing Board of the National Peace Council (NPC), said the development calls for additional action because the fall is not healthy for Ghana.

He was addressing during a two-day national dialogue in Prampram on Tuesday, July 12, 2023, on Improving civilian-security agency interactions for the prevention of violent extremism in Ghana.

The 17th edition of the Global Peace Index (GPI) from the international think-tank, the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), indicated that conflict deaths at the greatest level this century are causing world peace to fall.

The national dialogue was organized by the NPC and Catholic Relief Services (CRS) with funding from the Netherlands Embassy with the goal of strategically building consensus and trust to improve civilian-security agency relations in Ghana in order to prevent violent extremism through the Prevention of Violent Extremism Through Social Accountability (PoVETSA) project.

Security services, including the Ghana Police Service, as well as officials from several political parties, attended the meeting.