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5. CNBC - Global Peace Index 2011

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4. 2011 Global Peace Index

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3. Peace, Made In The USA

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2. US Peace Index

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1. Founder - Steve Killelea

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Casey Jones 8 months ago

It was neat to see the scale and statistics of each of the countries you listed, but ending the video with a blanket term like you did doesn't sit well. ("Our research shows that if the world had been 25% less violent in the past 5 years, the global economy would have benefited from an additional 9.4 Trillion Dollars") How did you come up with these numbers? What does it mean to be "25% less violent" and how will it save 9.4 Trillion Dollars? It was a little bit of a let down that your project relies on so much interesting macro-level statistic monitoring, but then ended with an almost unquantifiable group chant like "All we are saying is give peace a chance".
Vision of Humanity 8 months ago

Thanks for your comment. The cost of violence can be quantified through the analysing available data on the level violent crime, incarceration, policing, judicial costs, medical system costs, and lost productivity through the destruction of human capital, as well as the size military budgets and government spending on war. This methodology was developed in cooperation with our Research Committee and two Professors of Economics at the Economists for Peace and Security. If you are interested in further reading on the topic, a detailed research paper is available on our website here: economicsandpeace.org/UserFiles/File/DefiningPeaceIndustrieAndCalculatingAPeaceWGP.pdf
It is also available in a more accessible format in our 2009 discussion paper as well here: visionofhumanity.org/wp-content/uploads/PDF/2009/2009%20GPI%20Discussion%20Paper.pdf
Casey Jones 8 months ago

I like that you replied to my comment so professionally. I hope I didn't come across as rude, the 9.4 Trillion number just struck me as a little ridiculous. Thank you for providing these references for me!
Noah Loomis 8 months ago

Also, 9.4 trillion dollars, on a global scale, is unfortunately not that much money.
Vision of Humanity 8 months ago

Might not be much, but consider this:

If the world had been 25% more peaceful over the past year the global economy would have reaped an additional economic benefit of just over US$2 trillion. This amount would pay for the 2% of global GDP per annum investment estimated by the Stern Review to avoid the worst effects of climate change, cover the cost of achieving the Millennium Development Goals, eliminate the public debt of Greece, Portugal and Ireland, and address the one-off rebuilding costs of the most expensive natural disaster in history – the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami.
daniel robaldo 8 months ago

Thank you very much for guiding your research in this direction. It is important that there are people, millions of people who know absolutely nothing of what is spent and what it could do with that money. This is part of human prehistory, is also part of the education system of our country '. When we have a complicated system of human violence and global, the education system is retarded, why not seek to awaken the human being in this numbness that has him facing everyday reality. Thank you very much and hope you can make another, on institutional violence, or violence Drug Corporations.