The tenth edition of the annual Global Peace Index (GPI) produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace finds that the world is becoming less peaceful and the gap between the most and least peaceful countries continues to widen.
Released this week at the House of Lords in London, the 2016 GPI shows that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region recorded the world’s lowest levels of peace for the second year in a row. Conversely, many countries outside MENA have reached historically high levels of peacefulness. Eighty-one countries improved during 2015, but the deterioration in another 79 outweighed these …read more