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Saturday, June 02, 2007

Vision of Humanity - Global Peace Index and Sustainability

Foi construido pela primeira vez um indice que analisa o nível de Paz de um país, tendo em conta a a sua sustentabilidade politica, económica e social.

Foram analisados 121 países tendo em conta factores com Respeito pelos Direitos Humanos, corrupção, venda de armas a paises terceiros, acesso a armas, desemprego, relações com países vizinhos, etc, para criar um ranking.


Espero que venha a ser mais do que um indice e que se venha a ter em conta na caracterização por vezes demasiado pobre do que é um: País Desenvolvido / País em Vias de Desenvolvimento.


"We pursue sustainability in the hope that we can live in peace."~ Tim Flannery


Como podes ver no mapa temos um planeta cada vez menos azul...






Faço aqui a transcrição do conceito deste indice que podes consultar para mais informação em http://www.visionofhumanity.com/index.php





Global Peace Index and Sustainability


Peace and sustainability are the cornerstones of humanity’s survival in the 21st century.
The major challenges facing humanity today are global – climate change, accessible fresh water, ever decreasing bio-diversity and over population. Problems that call for global solutions and these solutions will require co-operation on a global scale unparalleled in history. Peace is the essential prerequisite, for, without peace, how can the major nations of the world co-operate to solve these issues?

The Global Peace Index is a ground-breaking milestone in the study of peace. It is the first time that an Index has been created that ranks the nations of the world by their peacefulness and identified some of the drivers of that peace. 121 countries have been ranked by their ‘absence of violence’, using metrics that combine both internal and external factors. Most people understand the absence of violence as an indicator of peace. This definition also allows for the measuring of peacefulness within, as well as between, nations.

Peace is a powerful concept. However, the notion of peace, and its value in the world economy, is poorly understood. Historically, peace has been seen as something won in war, or else as an altruistic ideal. There are competing definitions of peace, and most research into peace is, in fact, the study of violent conflict.

Vision of Humanity contains the results from the Global Peace Index and other material of interest on peace. It also contains a section on institutions that need help to fund peace-related initiatives. Over time this source will be updated to combine more relevant material that will demonstrate the linkages between peace and sustainability.

“The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war."~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

TOP10 (BEST SUSTAINABILITY&PEACE)

rank:

1 1.357 Norway
2 1.363 New Zealand
3 1.377 Denmark
4 1.396 Ireland
5 1.413 Japan
6 1.447 Finland
7 1.478 Sweden
8 1.481 Canada
9 1.481 Portugal
10 1.483 Austria

TOP10 (BEWARE)

rank:

112 2.587 Angola
113 2.638 Cote d' Ivoire
114 2.662 Lebanon
115 2.697 Pakistan
116 2.770 Colombia
117 2.898 Nigeria
118 2.903 Russia
119 3.033 Israel
120 3.182 Sudan
121 3.437 Iraq

FYI: Posição dos dois "amigos nucleares" é muito, muito próxima, para não dizer simétrica.


rank:

96 2.3179 United States of America
97 2.321 Iran

Notes:

1. Peace index scores from 1 to 5 where 1=most peaceful. Ranked out of 121 countries.

2. Click in each country and find tout the score for each factor of analysis that composes de index of peace

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1 Comments:

Blogger Shraddha said...

É incrivel como os Senhores do Poder e do desenvolvimento continuam de olhos fechados para o que não lhes convém ver e mantêm-se assim numa ignorancia desejada....acreditando hipocritamente que esse é o melhor caminho...

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