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The Global Peace Index compares peacefulness between different countries in the world. It examines each countries direct involvement in wars and violent conflicts, the weapons it produces and exports, the accessibility for normal citizens to purchase weapons, and the amount of money the military receives from the state.
Here you can view the Global Peace Index per country. Click ‘Full Stats’ for more information!
What surprised you about your country? How could they improve? What surprised you about other countries? Which ones are more peaceful or violent than you thought?
Action 1
Share the Global Peace Index website in your social media, ideally together with a comment about how your country can improve. Use the hashtag #PeaceEducationInPractice in your post.
Action 2
Research initiatives in your country that work on improving your country’s ranking in the Global Peace Index. This can include organisations advocating for stricter gun laws, for less military spending, for prohibiting weapon exports. War Resisters International is an example, and has members in more than 40 countries.
See how you can support these organisations. Join them, donate to them, or spread the word about their work on social media!
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Сейчас в такое тяжелое время важно мирное решение конфликтов международными организациями.
Везде важно понимание.
Peace is not easily measured because it has a lot to go with, not being at war does not qualify peace, a example is my country Zambia its never at war, we hold democratic elections and there is proper transition of power but people are not happy many can’t even afford three meals a day
I need someone answers to my questions. I live in Afghanistan. Who will be responsible for the Afghanistan war during the last four decades? Right now, we burn in the fire of war, and we can not find a way for ourselves. Every day insurgent groups take our life. what should we do to be one of the peaceful countries in the World?
I am quite surprised that my nation is standing at 71 GPI 2021. Looking at the four measuring parameters i.e. direct involvement in wars; weapons production & export; citizens accessibility to weapons; and military budget line, i was of the view that developing countries with peaceful cultures would be in the very high to high state of peace category. Also, how has Ethiopian which has been and continues to be at war, managed to score higher than Cameroon, a nation that has been and is experiencing relative peace. So, apart from the four what other criteria are used to measure the peacefulness of a nation?
Is there any connection between the notion of Peace mentioned in this Index with the happiness level of people? For instance, I can see that some countries in Europe have quite high level of “peacefulness” but from my personal observation, many local people are not so happy with their government…