Global Peace Index
The Global Peace Index is an attempt to portray the peacefulness of nations and regions on the basis of a relative comparison. Created and edited, he is an international body consisting of experts peace, peace institutes, think tanks and the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney, in collaboration with the British magazine The Economist.
The first version of the index was published in May 2007 and is considered the first study that provides a base of peacefulness of countries around the world. The study, among other things by the Dalai Lama, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Queen Noor of Jordan was supported.
Overall, the World Peace Index is currently 121 countries divided into five main categories, with category 1 based on the most peaceful region or the 5 shall apply to the school grading system for the region with the highest violence statistics.
Committee
The international committee consists of the following persons:
- Professor Kevin P. Clements: Director of the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies ( ACPACS ), University of Queensland, Australia
- Professor Daniel Druckman: Scientists at the Australian Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies ( ACPACS ), University of Queensland, Australia
- Paul van Tongeren: Managing Director of the Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict ( GPPAC ), Netherlands
- Emeritus Professor Stuart Rees: Sydney Peace Foundation, University of Sydney, Australia
- Dr. Manuela Mesa: Director of the Peace Research Center (Centro de Investigación para la Paz, CIP FUHEM ) & President of the Asociación Española de Investigación para la Paz ( AIPAZ ), Spain
- Professor Andrew Mack: Director of the Human Security Centre, University of British Columbia, Canada
- Alyson Bailes: Director of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI ), Sweden
- Dan Smith: Author
- Associate Professor Mohammed Abu- Nimer: School of International Service, American University, Washington DC, USA
Assessment criteria
Global Peace Index (ranking )
The most peaceful countries have a low score. Marked in green countries are among the 20 % most peaceful countries of each year; red marked countries are among the most warlike of 20%.
In 2009, the policy has been changed. As most peaceful nation is loud GPI now New Zealand. The Nordic countries Denmark and Norway are divided as last second. Last year's winner Iceland occupies the fourth place after this recalculation. Austria improved compared to the previous year from 10th to 5th place, while Germany and Switzerland the spaces 16 and 18 are taking. The U.S. improved by 14 places to number 83, the bottom of the list still is Iraq, which occupies position 144.