According to the newly published 2012 Global Peace Index, Ireland is the sixth most peaceful place on earth… along with Austria apparently.
There’s not much that Ireland has in common with Austria (we both love beer, maybe?), but according to the most recent Global Peace Index, we’re currently both the sixth most peaceful places on earth, which isn’t too bad really.
The GPI was started in 2006 and for the first time since 2009, the world is a more peaceful place – well, overall. All regions excluding the Middle East and North Africa saw improvements in levels of overall peacefulness.
But what exactly is this peaceful index lark that we speak of? Produced by the Institute for Economics and Peace, the GPI ranks 158 nations using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators, which gauge on-going domestic and international conflict, safety and security in society, militarisation and other nasty sounding stuff like that.
Iceland was noted as the most peaceful country for the second successive year while poor awl Somalia sits Paddy last, mainly due to all the conflict and pirates and whatnot. Our next Euro opponents, Spain, currently sit in 25th position while the British are all the way back in 29th.
You can have a look at where almost every nation in the world sits on the GPI here, and you can also have a better look at how Ireland scored here.
Yellow is peaceful, red… not so much
