The herald angels had better stop harking about peace on earth and mercy mild because at times it seems that the whole world is at war and according to the latest Institute for Economics and Peace’s (IEP’s), it almost is with just 11 countries not involved in conflict of one kind or another.
The world as a whole has been getting incrementally less peaceful every year since 2007 and with certain countries doing more than their fair share to make sure that particular stat continues, it is no surprise that the UK finds itself in 47th place in the Global Peace index, USA is 101st, Israel 149th, Russia 152nd and Iraq 159th with unsurprisingly Syria the least peaceful place on earth.
The Herald Angel would be fine if it only included Switzerland, Japan, Qatar, Mauritius, Uruguay, Chile, Botswana, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Panama and Brazil in its song though because those are the most peaceful places with the least amount of internal and external conflict.
The director of the IEP Camilla Schippa warned that the state of peace in our time has been slowly but steadily decreasing in recent years and blames 'Major economic and geopolitical shocks, such as the global financial crisis and the Arab Spring. In the last year we have seen a large increase in terrorist activity and continuing global unrest means that there is unlikely to be a reversal of this trend in the short run'.
2 comments:
This is the perspective from one point of view. They are not neutral. They make many assumptions.
A smaller percent of people die due to war than any other time in history. Humans and society don't advance on a straight line. There are fluctuations up and down and to pick "since 2007" works to make their political case, and your post.
Further, almost all conflict evolves around one region. A region that has rarely been peaceful in recorded history except when most of it was repressed by the USSR and tyrannical monarchs.
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2007 was the year it has been less than every year. It may have been 1987 or 1967 but it wasn't it was 2007 so hardly bias.
I think 2007 being the year is especially significant because the recession began in 2008 which would make sense.
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