Sorry for the redundancy and apologies to Giedre Steikunaite who wrote a great post on the Global Peace Index already: http://development.thinkaboutit.eu/index.php/think3/post/peace_what_peace/
Check it out!
The Institute for Economics and Peace has launched the 2010 rankings of the Global Peace Index to rate countries by their peacefulness indicators as well as clearly identify those factors serving as the “drivers of peace.” Check out their interactive map.
The project uses “absence of violence” as an operating definition of peace and ranks 149 countries via 24 indicators in order to capture the more nuanced “texture of peace.” These indicators come from various organizations such as the World Bank, International Institute of Strategic Studies, UN offices, and the Economist Intelligence Unit. They range from more qualitative measures like perceived criminality in a society and neighboring country relations to objective statistics such as weapons imports and internal deaths from conflict.
The least peaceful country?
Iraq.
And can you find the most peaceful?
Hint: Look southeast.
I’m a sucker for maps, and this one won’t disappoint. Take five minutes and check it out!
Giedre Steikunaite was first
- http://development.thinkaboutit.eu/index.php/think3/post/peace_what_peace/
Wow thanks, Iwona! Totally didn’t catch it at all! Oops. I will try to take it down and if it’s not possible I’ll put her link at the top!
Great post - by both Maria and Giedre. Great minds, eh?
yes, Maria keep finding such a thinks
more interactive better we can imagine…
Maria, no need to apologize. Thank you for putting a link to my post on the GPI! And sorry for having ruined your tricky question of looking south-east…
Haha, thank you ladies. That’s what I get for dropping out of the real world to take exams!
Yeah it’s hard to keep up with all the posts, isn’t it? I was slaving at work these last days and only glimpsed at the platform, so now it’s time to catch up! Hope your exams went well Maria