| 1. Iceland
2. Denmark 2. New Zealand 4. Canada 5. Japan 6. Austria 6. Ireland ?. Luxembourg 8. Slovenia 9. Finland 10. Switzerland 11. Belgium 12. Qatar 13. Czech Republic 14. Sweden 15. Germany 16. Portugal 17. Hungary 18. Norway 19. Bhutan 20. Malaysia 21. Mauritius 22. Australia 23. Singapore x. Hong Kong 24. Poland 25. Spain 26. Slovakia 27. Taiwan 28. Netherlands 29. UK 30. Chile 31. Botswana 32. Romania 33. Uruguay 34. Vietnam 35. Croatia 36. Costa Rica 37. Laos 38. Italy |
39. Bulgaria
40. France 41. Estonia 42. South Korea 43. Lithuania 44. Argentina 45. Latvia 46. UAE 47. Kuwait 48. Mozambique 49. Namibia 50. Ghana 51. Zambia 52. Sierra Leone 53. Lesotho 54. Morocco 55. Tanzania 56. Burkina Faso 56. Djibouti 58. Mongolia 59. Oman 60. Malawi 61. Panama 62. Jordan 63. Indonesia 64. Serbia 65. Bosnia & H. 66. Albania 66. Moldova 68. Macedonia 69. Guyana 70. Cuba 71. Ukraine 72. Tunisia 73. Cyprus 74. Gambia 75. Gabon 76. Paraguay 77. Greece 78. Senegal |
79. Peru
80. Nepal 81. Montenegro 81. Nicaragua 83. Brazil 84. Bolivia 85. Ecuador 85. Swaziland 86. ? 87. Eq. Guinea 88. USA 89. China, P.R. 90. Dominican R. 91. Bangladesh 92. Guinea 93. Papua N.G. 94. T. & Tobago 95. Angola 97. Cameroon 98. Uganda 99. Tajikistan 99. Madagascar 101. Liberia 102. Mali 103. Sri Lanka 104. Congo, R. 105. Kazakhstan 106. Saudi Arabia 107. Haiti 108. Cambodia 109. Belarus 110. Uzbekistan 111. Egypt 111. El Salvador 113. Jamaica 114. Benin 115. Armenia 116. Niger 117. Turkmenistan 118. Bahrain |
119. Rwanda
120. Kenya 121. Algeria 122. Eritrea 123. Venezuela 124. Guatemala 125. Mauritania 126. Thailand 127. South Africa 128. Iran 129. Honduras 130. Turkey 131. Kyrgyzstan 132. Azerbaijan 133. Philippines 134. Cote d'Ivoire 135. Mexico 136. Lebanon 137. Ethiopia 138. Burundi 139. Myanmar 140. Zimbabwe 141. Georgia 142. India 143. Yemen 144. Colombia 145. Chad 146. Nigeria 147. Libya 147. Syria 149. Pakistan 150. Israel 151. Central Africa 152. North Korea 153. Russia 154. Congo, D.R. 155. Iraq 156. Sudan 157. Afghanistan 158. Somalia |
Saturday, November 17, 2012
Global Peace Index (GPI)
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The Global Peace Index (GPI) is an attempt to measure the relative position of nations’ and regions’ peacefulness. It is the product of Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) and developed in consultation with an international panel of peace experts from peace institutes and think tanks with data collected and collated by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
ReplyDeleteIt is claimed to be the first study to rank countries around the world according to their peacefulness.
The study is the brainchild of Australian entrepreneur Steve Killelea and is endorsed by individuals such as Kofi Annan, the Dalai Lama, archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari, Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, economist Jeffrey Sachs, former president of Ireland Mary Robinson, and former US president Jimmy Carter.
Factors examined by the authors include internal factors such as levels of violence and crime within the country and factors in a country’s external relations such as military expenditure and wars.
The index is launched each year at events in London, Washington DC, the United Nations in New York and in Brussels.
The research team was headed by The Economist Intelligence Unit in conjunction with academics and experts in the field of peace. They measured countries’ peacefulness based on wide range of indicators, 23 in all (originally 24 indicators, but one was dropped in 2008). A table of the indicators is below. In the table, UCDP stands for the Uppsala Conflict Data Program maintained by the University of Uppsala in Sweden, EIU for The Economist Intelligence Unit, UNSCT for the United Nations Survey of Criminal Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems, ICPS is the International Center for Prison Studies at King’s College London, IISS for the International Institute for Strategic Studies publication The Military Balance 2007, SIPRI for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Arms Transfers Database, and BICC for the Bonn International Center for Conversion.
ReplyDeleteIndicator (Source)
ReplyDelete▪ Ease of access to small arms and light weapons (EIU)
▪ Estimated deaths due to external wars (UCDP)
▪ Estimated deaths due to internal wars (UCDP)
▪ Exports of major conventional weapons (SIPRI)
▪ Funding for UN peacekeeping missions (IEP)
▪ Imports of major conventional weapons (SIPRI)
▪ Level of organized internal conflict (EIU)
▪ Level of perceived criminality in society (EIU)
▪ Level of respect for human rights (Amnesty International)
▪ Level of violent crime (EIU)
▪ Likelihood of violent demonstrations (EIU)
▪ Military capability or sophistication (EIU)
▪ Military expenditure as a percentage of GDP (IISS)
▪ Number of armed services personnel (IISS)
▪ Number of external and internal wars fought (UCDP)
▪ Number of heavy weapons (IEP)
▪ Number of homicides (UNCTS)
▪ Number of jailed persons (ICPS)
▪ Number of police and security officers (UNCTS)
▪ Number of refugees and displaced persons (UNHCR and IDMC)
▪ Political instability (EIU)
▪ Potential for terrorist acts (EIU)
▪ Relations with neighbouring countries (EIU)
The main findings of the Global Peace Index are:
ReplyDeletePeace is correlated to indicators such as income, schooling and the level of regional integration;
Peaceful countries often shared high levels of transparency of government and low corruption;
Small, stable countries which are part of regional blocks are most likely to get a higher ranking.
Australia and the United Kingdom are high in ranking … naturally.
ReplyDelete… and countries which take responsibilities in the world seriously are low in ranking …
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