This was a nice read for Kiwis today. Aotearoa/New Zealand is the most peaceful country on the planet according to the 2009 Global Peace Index (GPI).
The index defines peace as "the absence of violence," and checks out twenty-three qualitative and quantitative indicators of external and internal measures of peacefulness. Internally, these include homicides, percentage of the population in jail, availability of guns, and level of organized crime. External indicators include the size of the military, exports and imports of arms, battlefield deaths, UN peacekeeping contributions, and relations with neighbouring states.
Apparently last year (2008) we came in fourth, and the year before (2007) we were second.
You can check out how well your country scored here.
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