This year's Global Peace Index from the Institute for Economics and Peace found that the world had improved in peacefulness for the first time since 2009, a modest indicator since the index has only been running for six years.
According to the GPI, a "global slide in peacefulness has now been in effect for the last seven years". But the world is apparently only "slightly" less peaceful because many countries have improved or maintained their peacefulness, such as Iceland, who topped the index last year and continues to be the most peaceful country in the world.
external measures of peacefulness have improved, there has been a rise in internal conflict.
Despite overwhelming data, policymakers are not in hot pursuit of the very policies that would increase the peacefulness, improve economic productivity, and cut costs across the board as we concurrently cut violence levels in this country.
Despite blinding, subjects' VAS scores improved from baseline to post-intervention for stress, relaxation and peacefulness (p<0.05 for all comparisons).
Other patient-reported benefits include: improved stress management, better sleeping habits and a new capacity to experience peacefulness.
Despite blinding, subjects' VAS scores improved from baseline to post-intervention for stress (5.5 vs. 2.2), relaxation (3.8 vs. 8.8) and peacefulness (3.8 vs. 9.0, P < 0.05 for all comparisons).
Nor should you underestimate the value of making lifestyle choices that may improve your sleep, jump-start your energy, and restore a sense of peacefulness and contentment.
And the garden and its peacefulness deserve to be better known, he said.
Published by the Institute for Economics & Peace, the index tries to measure peacefulness.
