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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 kaszz on Sunday August 10 2014, @10:51PM
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
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.