LONDON — Despite an escalating conflict in Syria and mounting civil unrest in Europe, the world became a more peaceful place in the last year, a study showed on Tuesday, highlighting particular improvement in Africa.
The Global Peace Index, produced by the Australia and U.S.-based Institute for Economics and Peace, showed its first improvement in two years. For the first time, sub-Saharan Africa was no longer the world’s least peaceful region, losing that dubious distinction to the Middle Eastand North Africa in the aftermath of the “Arab Spring”.
How do they arrive at “more peaceful”? Sounds like the people who wrote this are the same ones who put out Obama’s fictitious job numbers month after month.
Doesn’t seem more peaceful to me either. Peaceful is misleading. I think the title should have been slightly less murdering. -Jack