Although it's been around for almost ten years, I'd never heard of The Institute for Economics and Peace. Maybe that's because it is headquartered in Australia. It is a "think tank dedicated to developing metrics to analyse peace and to quantify its economic value. It does this by developing global and national indices, calculating the economic cost of violence, analyzing country level risk and understanding positive peace." It claims that it has the ear of the people who count - governments, academic institutions, think tanks, non-governmental organisations and by intergovernmental institutions such as the OECD, The Commonwealth Secretariat, the World Bank and the United Nations.
Their most recent report looks at 163 countries and territories. They conclude that Syria is the least peaceful country, followed by South Sudan, Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia. The world’s most peaceful countries are Iceland, Denmark, Austria, New Zealand and Portugal.
Where does the U.S. stand? 103rd.
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