Today's is the Global Peace Index, a metric created by Steve Killelea, an Australian businessman and philanthropist that is designed to measure how "peaceful" the nations of the world are. According to Vision of Humanity, the organization that compiled the index, peacefulness is defined as: "harmony achieved by the absence of war or conflict."
If you want to be peaceful then go to Iceland, which was ranked the first out of 140 nations surveyed. The United States came in at a rather disappointing 97th. The US was weighed down by one key statistic considered in the survey – the number of homicides per 100,000 people.
Bringing up the bottom of the list were Sudan, Somalia and Iraq. The full Global Peace Index for 2008, along with a full explanation of their methodology, can be found here.
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