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Welcome to The World Happiness Foundation’s Public Policy Forum

"We need to work together at a systemic level to create the necessary change"

Growing inequalities, lost diversity, pandemics, and climate change are only some of the serious challenges facing humanity in the coming decades. All of these crises are interconnected and we cannot confront them in isolation. Our current economic systems are failing to foster a productive and healthy balance between societal, individual, and environmental needs and goals.

That is why we support the leaders from governments and organizations that are disrupting current systems by implementing new policies and initiatives that are advancing the dialogue on creating economies of happiness and well-being for all.

In Partnership with the United Nations University for Peace

The Foundation stewards two UN resolutions:

The Foundation specifically stewards two UN resolutions:

UN RESOLUTION 65/309

Happiness: Towards a Holistic Approach to Development

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UN RESOLUTION 66/281

International Day
of Happiness

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We Support Global Political Initiatives

All of our work supports the UN Global Compact and many of the Sustainable Development Goals

We bring together the world leaders and experts on Public Policy across multiple disciplines such as Health Care, Education, Environment, Economy, Psychology, Business, Research, Statistics, and the United Nations 2030 agenda to breakdown silos and to improve the overall happiness and well-being of all beings.

We bring a holistic approach incorporating view from the leading institutions and the professionals behind the latest research and policies around the world.

We help advance the dialogue on Public Policy towards an Economy of Happiness and Well-Being.

GLOBAL HAPPINESS AND WELL-BEING POLICY REPORT

The 2019 Global Happiness and Well-Being Policy Report is produced by the Global Happiness Council (GHC) and contains papers by expert working groups on happiness for good governance. This report provides evidence and policy recommendations on best practices to promote happiness and well-being. The 2019 Global Happiness and Well-Being Policy Report was presented at World Government Summit held in Dubai on February 10, 2019.

WORLD HAPPINESS REPORT

The World Happiness Report is a landmark survey of the state of global happiness that ranks 156 countries by how happy their citizens perceive themselves to be. The report is produced by the United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network in partnership with the Ernesto Illy Foundation. The World Happiness Report was written by a group of independent experts acting in their personal capacities. Any views expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the views of any organization, agency or program of the United Nations.

OECD BETTER LIFE INDEX

How is LIFE? There is more to life than the cold numbers of GDP and economic statistics – This Index allows you to compare well-being across countries, based on 11 topics the OECD has identified as essential, in the areas of material living conditions and quality of life.

HAPPY PLANET INDEX

The Happy Planet Index measures what matters: sustainable wellbeing for all. It tells us how well nations are doing at achieving long, happy, sustainable lives. Wealthy Western countries, often seen as the standard of success, do not rank highly on the Happy Planet Index. Instead, several countries in Latin America and the Asia Pacific region lead the way by achieving high life expectancy and wellbeing with much smaller Ecological Footprints. The Happy Planet Index provides a compass to guide nations, and shows that it is possible to live good lives without costing the Earth.

Join our World Happiness & Well-Being Public Policy Forum at the World Happiness Fest.

Gross National Happiness, or GNH, is a holistic and sustainable approach to development, which balances material and non-material values with the conviction that humans want to search for happiness. The objective of GNH is to achieve a balanced development in all facets of life that are essential; for our happiness.

We are in the age of the Anthropocene when the fate of the planet and all life is within the power of mankind. Boundless consumerism, widening socio-economic inequality and instability is causing rapid natura resource depletion and degradation. Climate change, species extinction, multiple crises, growing insecurity, instability and conflicts are not only diminishing our well-being but are also threatening our very survival.

Today, it is inconceivable for modern society to function without the business of commerce, finance, industry or trade. These very factors are altering human destiny by the day in extraordinary ways, both positive and negative. GNH directly addresses such global, national and individual challenges by pointing to the non-material roots of well-being and offering ways to balance and satisfy the dual needs of the human being within the limits of what nature can provide on a sustainable basis.

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The Economy of Happiness and Well-Being

We support the emergence of new economic paradigms

Growing inequalities, lost diversity, pandemics, and climate change are only some of the serious challenges that humanity faces in the coming decades. All of these crises are interconnected, and we cannot confront them in isolation. Our current economic systems are not designed to deliver a balanced approach to social and environmental initiatives. World Happiness Foundation Founder, Luis Gallardo addresses these issues in his report on The Economy of Happiness and Well-Being.

An economy is a collection of norms and rules that reward certain behaviors and punish others. The economies of the 21st century destroy natural wealth, degrade communal bonds, and incentivize overconsumption. This is how our economies have evolved to function, which also means that we can change them and evolve in new directions. It is time we think about how.

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Happytalism, Key to (Re)connection

Congreso de Peru - World Happiness Foundation

Perú Before the Mirror of the World.

Luis Miguel Gallardo

Peru Before the Mirror of the World — World Happiness Foundation World Happiness Foundation  ·  Observatory  ·  Public Policy  ·  April 2026 Public policy & global well-being Peru Before the Mirrorof the World Before Peru’s Congress, Luis Miguel Gallardo made a proposal that transcends politics: to establish in Peru an Agora of the World Happiness Foundation — in the very territory where global well-being science and the ancestral wisdom of the Pachamama converge most powerfully on Earth. By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo President & Founder, World Happiness Foundation Lima, Peru — April 2026 There are moments in a country’s history that arrive without fanfare. They happen in a chamber of sessions, before open microphones and skeptical welcomes, when someone rises and says something the protocol did not expect. This past April, in the Congress of the Republic of Peru, one of those moments took place. Luis Miguel Gallardo, President and Founder of the World Happiness Foundation, appeared before the honorable members of Congress with a concrete proposal: to establish in Peru an Agora of the Foundation — a

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The Global Pain and Trauma Map by Luis Miguel Gallardo

The Global Pain and Trauma Map (GPTM): Making the Invisible Visible

Luis Miguel Gallardo

A New Framework for Understanding — and Healing — Humanity’s Suffering Across 7 Domains, 196 Countries, and 272 Communities Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo Founder & President, World Happiness Foundation | Shoolini University | April 2026 The Problem: We Only See One-Seventh of Human Suffering For decades, global mental health policy has been guided by a single question: How many people have a diagnosable psychiatric disorder? The World Health Organization counts depression (264 million), anxiety (301 million), and PTSD (3.9% lifetime prevalence). The World Happiness Report asks citizens to rate their lives on a 0-10 ladder. The Global Peace Index counts conflict deaths and military expenditure. Each of these indices is valuable. Each is also profoundly incomplete. A woman in Stockholm may score 7.5 on the WHR life-evaluation ladder — conventionally “happy” — while carrying deep existential purposelessness (Domain 5), chronic somatic tension from decades of performance culture (Domain 6), and escalating eco-anxiety about the warming Arctic she can see from her window (Domain 7). None of these appear in any conventional metric. She is statistically happy and experientially

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The Global Roadmap from Pain to Fundamental Peace: A Blueprint for 10 Billion Happy by 2050

Luis Miguel Gallardo

How a trilogy of papers charts the course from humanity’s deepest wounds to its highest potential By Prof. Luis Miguel Gallardo Yogananda School of Spirituality and Happiness, Shoolini University World Happiness Foundation What would it take to create a world where every human being experiences genuine peace — not as a fleeting moment, but as the stable ground of their existence? This is not a rhetorical question. It is the central challenge of my new paper, “The Global Roadmap from Pain to Fundamental Peace: A Blueprint for 10 Billion Happy by 2050.” And I believe, based on the convergence of neuroscience, clinical evidence, epidemiological data, and the world’s wisdom traditions, that we now have enough knowledge to answer it concretely — with timelines, milestones, and measurable targets. This paper is the culmination of a body of work that has been building across two previous publications. The first, “Hypnosis as a Mechanism of Emotion Regulation and Self-Integration” — in Behavioral Sciences — laid the neurobiological groundwork. It demonstrated how altered states of consciousness, particularly hypnotherapy, quiet the default mode

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