The July 27, 2010 CHRISTIAN CENTURY has a little blurb about the ranking of countries by a peace index from the Global Peace Index 2010/Institute for Economics and Peace. I was surprised by number one, New Zealand, but only because it's not a country that comes to my mind often. The index measures domestic and international peace and conflict.
The top ten most peaceful in order are New Zealand, Iceland, Japan, Austria, Norway (#5 you gotta be kidding?) Ireland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Finland and Sweden. The least peaceful in descending order are Russia, Israel, Pakistan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq. United States? number 85 of 149.
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