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Interesting numbers about war and peace and trends. 6 months old and written with a point of view that you may or may not agree with, but still quite interesting.
Quote that got my interest: “There are currently 56 conflicts, the most since World War II.”
One should add: tendency rising.
https://www.economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/GPI-2024-web.pdf
@j12t Curious. I knew about the 50+ ongoing conflicts from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts but I didn't know someone claimed to measure peacefulness in Europe with 4 significant digits. The results are slightly suspicious, for example a purported ~1 % increase in peacefulness in Italy and Finland under very militaristic governments with far-right elements. Apparently the biggest driver is "violent demonstrations". What if you pre-emptively jail everyone instead of beating them up in the streets?
@nemobis That's the kind of thing I meant when saying "... POV you may or may not agree with"...
@j12t Indeed, I was warned. ;) I'm not even sure I disagree, I might agree with them if only they dropped 2 significant digits. :)
To get a complete picture, one has to look at other data sets too.