Impact

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the Global Peace Index measures peace among the world’s nations.

The 2017 report says that deaths and material costs from terrorism, have risen sharply.

impact

The study puts the impact of violence on the world economy last year at $14.3 trillion.

to have an impact, is to have a strong, and often bad effect on something or someone.

Impact is also the act, or force of one thing, hitting another.