Being at peace with your neighbors

The organization Visions of Humanity has released its 2010 Global Peace Index. It rated 149 nations on a 5 point scale for 23 areas that include:

* Number of jailed per 100K, number of homicides per 100K, number of police per 100K.

* Perceptions of criminality, accessibility of weapons of minor destruction.

* Number of deaths from organized conflict (internal and external)

* Military capability & sophistication, military expenditure as percentage of GDP.

* Relations with neighboring countries.

Top of the list: New Zealand (score 1.18), Iceland, Japan, Austria, Norway, Ireland, Denmark, Luxembourg, Finland, Sweden.

Bottom: Congo, Chad, Georgia, Russia, Israel, Pakistan, Sudan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq (score 3.40).

USA? It's at 85th place with a score of 2.06. Nice colorful map at the link.