2010 global peace index - Page 10

On September 23 2010 03:26 LaLLsc2 wrote:



Everything Canada has done to drop its peace rating is a direct result of what they believe is best for Canada. You can blame the US all you want but in the end you're just like everyone else.

On September 09 2010 04:48 DoubleZee wrote:


That dragged us into a 9 year old war and encourages our leaders to spend billions on war planes. I would say 14 is pretty good.

On October 22 2010 15:22 dybydx wrote:
lol USA ranked below communist China.

and how is japan ranked above canada?

On October 22 2010 15:22 dybydx wrote:
lol USA ranked below communist China.

and how is japan ranked above canada?

On October 25 2010 11:09 Alexhandr wrote:
Lol. Ahhhh... I love stuff like this. Makes me laugh. But ya know what? If we were the most violent country, I'd STILL love my country. If we were the worst, I wouldn't care. My nation is the most charitable nation. We fund the most cash to the UN (which is freaking useless!), we give the most cash and goods away to other countries, and we are almost ALWAYS there at the scene of whatever international incident there is. (Chilean miners, anyone?)

So, yeah. This stuff means nothing. God bless America and every decent soul within her borders. <3

On September 14 2010 03:52 Kimaker wrote:
Ok...based on that criteria, the USA's number's would be artificially inflated because of how many people are jailed because of Marijuana, the "access to weapons" criteria is no indicator AT ALL of peace when you consider that the perceived criminality, police, level of violent crime and homicide's category's all demonstrate how those weapons are actually used, which would be a much more accurate representation of how "peaceful" a nation is. The notion of "disrespect for human rights" is arbitrary and non-quantifiable in any meaningful way, and should be removed as a criteria. Military capacity and sophistication is silly as well. Just because you CAN kick ass, doesn't necessarily mean you WILL, just look at Japan, pretty peaceful, then look at the US, we're at war all over the joint! Given you can have both extremes within ONE category, I'm not sure it's really useful.

Those are just the ones that jumped out at me as being bullshit.

Very interesting list, but like all lists of this sort, ultimately useless.

On October 25 2010 11:19 .Aar wrote:


Very, very, very, very important to consider when viewing this kind of data. Thanks for the insight.

On October 25 2010 16:38 sluggaslamoo wrote:
One should look at this as qualitative data. If you compare rankings, while they say that country X is 2 ranks higher than country Y its more likely that they are basically the same. So you can look at the most peaceful countries and the most war torn countries, and common-sense would judge why these countries are ranked where they are.

I'm not surprised that NZ is #1 though. They are a developed country, while being very passive about crime, terrorism and war, and America. They also don't have a great amount of natural resources, so basically no one cares about them, and thus they are left alone.

On October 25 2010 11:09 Alexhandr wrote:
Lol. Ahhhh... I love stuff like this. Makes me laugh. But ya know what? If we were the most violent country, I'd STILL love my country. If we were the worst, I wouldn't care. My nation is the most charitable nation. We fund the most cash to the UN (which is freaking useless!), we give the most goods and cash away to other countries, and we are almost ALWAYS there at the scene of whatever international incident there is. (Chilean miners, anyone?)

So, yeah. This stuff means nothing. God bless America and every decent soul within her borders. <3

On November 22 2010 08:58 darmousseh wrote:Switzerland was "peaceful" during the world wars....but not because their people didn't have guns, but because of how dangerous it was for enemy armies.