Friday, August 22, 2014

A World at War

Of 162 countries covered by the Institute for Economics and Peace’s (IEP’s) latest study, just 11 were not involved in conflict of one kind or another.

The only ones to achieve the lowest score for all forms of conflict were Switzerland, Japan, Qatar, Mauritius, Uruguay, Chile, Botswana, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Panama and Brazil. And even those countries are not entirely exempt from other problems that, the IEP says, could lend to conflict further down the line. Japan and Vietnam are involved in territorial disputes with China. Qatar is one of the countries financing jihadist groups fighting in Syria. Switzerland exports armaments. Brazil’s paramilitary police have been involved in almost war-like conflict with gangs in the favelas.

See the study here

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