The most peaceful nation in Africa is Mauritius which made an improvement of 0.013 points which also placed 25th worldwide.
The Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) which conducts the annual survey, is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.
This is the ninth edition, which ranks the nations of the world according to their level of peacefulness.
The index is composed of 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources and ranks 162 independent states, covering 99.6 percent of the world’s population.
It gauges global peace using three broad themes: the level of safety and security in the society, the extent of domestic and international conflict and the degree of militarisation.
The GPI put Ghana’s national cost of violence at $5,515,459,150 and provided a broad sectoral outlook of the various sectors of the economy or activities that impact on peacebuilding.
In relation to political terrorism and political instability, Ghana scored 2.0 out of total points of 5.0 while access to weapons in Ghana, the nation scored a massive 4.0 out of 5.0
Ghana scored 1.0 out of 5 and violent crime in deaths from internal conflict and regarding violent demonstrations, Ghana scored 3.0 out of a score of 5.0.
In relation to intensity of internal conflict, Ghana had 2.0 out of 5.0 and perception of criminality 3.0 out of 5.0.
The security of officers and the police scored 2.5, weapons importation and terrorism impact, 1.0 just as deaths from internal conflict.
Military expenditure score is 1.2 from 5.0 while militarization is 1.75 with society and security 2.2 out of 5.0 with neighbouring country’s relations’ impact on peace in the country is fixed at 2.0.
Sub-Saharan Africa’s score improved in 2015, albeit fractionally, putting it further ahead of regions including Russia and Eurasia, South Asia and MENA.
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