Global Peace Index

[PhillyB]

This is cool. Rates the peacefulness of countries in the world based on a lengthy list of factors like homicides per 100,000 people, access to weapons, terrorism likelihood, etc. Advanced info on other stats like GDP is available as well.

Very telling.

http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi-data/#/2011/scor/

[Doyle]

I saw a video a while back (I think it may have been on here) about how the world is way more peaceful today than ever. Very interesting stuff because everyone always thinks we are at the worst of our times.

[mav1234]

I saw a video a while back (I think it may have been on here) about how the world is way more peaceful today than ever. Very interesting stuff because everyone always thinks we are at the worst of our times.

That book is... a bit controversial, because of the way it was rating "peaceful." It also focused a bit too much on Western Europe imo.

[PhillyB]

I saw a video a while back (I think it may have been on here) about how the world is way more peaceful today than ever. Very interesting stuff because everyone always thinks we are at the worst of our times.

i can definitely see that acceptance of violence is far less widespread. we aren't axing teh gays between the legs for buggery, apocalypto scenes are relegated to societal outliers.

doesn't mean it doesn't still happen though, or that we as humanity have improved as vastly as we may think

[Doyle]

I think we are improving violence wise. You have to remember in the Middle Ages there was no CNN.

[Wither]

Access to weapons? Already don't like this liberal site.

[Davidson Deac II]

I saw a video a while back (I think it may have been on here) about how the world is way more peaceful today than ever. Very interesting stuff because everyone always thinks we are at the worst of our times.

Its not surprising to me at least from a military perspective. There just aren't as many major conflicts in the world as there were up until World War II. And given the number of nukes in the world, lets hope it stays that way.

[Grammer]

Access to weapons? Already don't like this liberal site.

I know right? having more weapons = more peaceful nation

[Jangler]

Syria not helping

[PhillyB]

Access to weapons? Already don't like this liberal site.

are you serious? sometimes it's hard to tell through the interwebz