The 2015 Global Peace Index has been released today and shows that overall, global peace levels remained stable in 2014; but are lower than 2008. However the overall score disguises an increasing division between the most and least peaceful nations.
Since last year, four out of the nine geographical regions experienced an improvement in peace: Europe, North America, sub-Saharan Africa and Central America and the Caribbean. The other five regions became less peaceful. The most substantial changes in the Index, unsurprisingly, occurred in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)—where several countries suffered from an upsurge in violence related to sectarian …read more
The 2015 Global Peace Index
