Global Peace Index

We hosted an official launch for this last week, but here's some more information on this year's Global Peace Index, from the Financial Times. Check out the full link below, but the top five countries this year are:

Iceland Denmark Norway New Zealand Japan

You can find the actual index here.

There is also a strong

Submitted by on Thu, 05/29/2008 - 7:00am.

There is also a strong parallel to the Human Development Index:
http://hdr.undp.org/en/media/hdr_20072008_tables.pdf

And, perhaps more surprisingly, "safe environments" for business profitability:
http://www.economist.com/research/articlesBySubject/displayStory.cfm?sto...