- 1 New Zealand,
- 2 Denmark,
- 3 Norway,
- 4 Iceland,
- 5 Austria,
- 6 Sweden,
- 7 Japan,
- 8 Canada,
- 9= Finland,
- 10= Slovenia.
The Global Peace Index, a report prepared for the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, ranks 144 countries in a league table of peacefulness.The ten least peaceful countries:
The index defines peace as “the absence of violence”.
Twenty-three criteria on which the league table is compiled include political stability, risk of terrorism, murder rate, likelihood of violent demonstrations, respect for human rights, internal conflicts, arms imports and involvement in foreign wars. _ImpactLab
- 1 Iraq,
- 2 Afghanistan,
- 3 Somalia,
- 4 Israel,
- 5 Sudan,
- 6 Democratic Republic of the Congo,
- 7 Chad,
- 8 Pakistan,
- 9 Russia,
- 10 Zimbabwe
People do not emigrate from Switzerland or the Cayman Islands to Egypt or Gaza.
2 comments:
Slovenia, having started the ugoslav wars & having a large number of inhabitants whom it denies citizenship to on ethnic grounds is a strange choice for peaceful & Israel as a less peaceful place to live than Sudan will come as a relief to the people of Darfur. I would have thought Singapore should be up there but they do have an effective way of dealing with Straits pirates which may have knocked them down.
Right.
The ranking criteria are more important than the rank itself.
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