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Jun
2007
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Global Peace Index
A leading businessman named Steve Killalea sponsors, in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit, a ranking of the peacefulness of various countries. Global Peace Index
The world’s most peaceful nation was Norway (can’t argue with that)
China ranked 60th (It could justifiably receive a far worse score)
Egypt ranked 73rd (definitely should be lower, it is internally stable and its people are not very ready to fight wars, as the survey posits)
America ranked 96th
No one can argue with the last three
The world’s least peaceful nations are
119. Israel
120. Sudan
121. Iraq
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Jordan 63 less peaceful than Bahrain 62 with one point!
Lebanon 114
and Oman is the most peaceful country in the Middle East!
There was an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate the President of Somalia today with a car bomb driven by a suicide bomber. The attempt was said to be by Islamists seeking to establish shariah in that country. I assume that did not improve Somalia’s peacefulness rating.
It is official! Oman is the most peaceful country in the middle east! Yes, it is more peaceful than the UK. Thanks to HM the Sultan. Come and enjoy peace in our country.
Congratulations Majid! Still, one has to consider the caveat “in the Middle East”
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It is a sad commentary on the state of the world that of the five most peaceful countries, three are islands (New Zealand, Ireland, Japan) and one of the other two might was well be (Norway, separated from Sweden by high mountains). Basically people don’t get along well with their neighbors so it is mainly islands that are peaceful. In fact, now that I think of it, Oman is sort of an island between the ocean and the Rub-al-khali.