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What Country is Ranked the Most Peaceful?

posted by n1 on Sunday August 10 2014, @03:09PM   Printer-friendly
from the no,-your-guess-wasn't-even-close dept.

gewg_ writes:

AlterNet reports:

"We are living in the most peaceful century in human history; however, the 2014 Global Peace Index shows that the last seven years has shown a notable deterioration in levels of peace."

So begins this year's peace index [script heavy site], an annual report released by the nonprofit Institute for Economics and Peace. The study ranks 162 countries (covering 99.6% of the world's population) according to a complex set of indicators that gauge the absence of violence and political instability. These include a nation's level of military expenditure, its relations with neighboring countries and the percentage of the population held in prisons.

Check out this infographic [pdf] to see which countries are the most and least peaceful, and access the IEP's full report here [pdf].

Most peaceful countries
1. Iceland
2. Denmark
3. Austria
4. New Zealand
5. Switzerland
6. Finland
7. Canada
8. Japan
9. Belgium
10. Norway

Least peaceful countries
1. Syria
2. Afghanistan
3. South Sudan
4. Iraq
5. Somalia
6. Sudan
7. Central African Republic
8. Democratic Republic of the Congo
9. Pakistan
10. North Korea
 
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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by kaszz on Sunday August 10 2014, @08:16PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Sunday August 10 2014, @08:16PM (#79755) Journal

    Democratic nations tend to not incite wars.

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  • (Score: 2, Funny) by tftp on Sunday August 10 2014, @10:38PM

    by tftp (806) on Sunday August 10 2014, @10:38PM (#79812) Homepage

    Democratic nations tend to not incite wars.

    Indeed, it was President Milosevic(a dictator, of course) who attacked the democratic USA. It was certainly the dictator Saddam Hussein who attacked the democratic USA after 9/11. It was also the theocratic Afghanistan that sent an army across the oceans to fight the USA. It was Muamar Gaddafi who attacked France and killed Nicolas Sarkozy.

    • (Score: 2) by kaszz on Sunday August 10 2014, @10:51PM

      by kaszz (4211) on Sunday August 10 2014, @10:51PM (#79821) Journal

      It's more of a probability than an absolute. Anyway US is corpocraty or oligarchy depending on how you view it. Even threating to arrest OSCE election monitors [examiner.com].

      • (Score: 1) by tftp on Monday August 11 2014, @10:24PM

        by tftp (806) on Monday August 11 2014, @10:24PM (#80257) Homepage

        One cannot call the USA an oligarchy and at the same time allow it to declare itself a democratic republic. It'd be like both having a pie and eating it. This is what causes so much anti-american feelings. On TV you see US officials proclaiming democracy, and at the same time in back rooms the same officials are ordering extrajudicial killings and mass murders and infinite imprisonment of foreign captives from a country that the US invaded - the stuff that not every bloody dictator would consider proper.

    • (Score: 2) by bradley13 on Monday August 11 2014, @07:47AM

      by bradley13 (3053) Subscriber Badge on Monday August 11 2014, @07:47AM (#79957) Homepage Journal

      Not sure why the parent post is marked as flamebait - it was the inevitable reply. The US has a record of intervening in foreign military conflicts, and occasionally attacking sovereign nations. Why is it flamebait to notice this?

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