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AlterNet reports:
Most peaceful countries"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].
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
(Score: 2) by geb on Sunday August 10 2014, @10:26PM
There's an entire continent of untapped mineral resources. There is oil, metal ore, and coal. There's no transport infrastructure, so it's difficult to access, but it's not a worthless wasteland.
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday August 11 2014, @12:17AM
The cost to retrieve those resources would exceed their value, so right now they have negative value.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek
(Score: 2) by kaszz on Monday August 11 2014, @12:58AM
Russia seems to think they have a positive value [www.cbc.ca] ..
(Score: 2) by mhajicek on Monday August 11 2014, @03:38AM
Interesting, but we were talking about the Antarctic.
The spacelike surfaces of time foliations can have a cusp at the surface of discontinuity. - P. Hajicek