Tanzania More Peaceful Nation than France, US and UK
By Staff Writer, New York 31-3-2019
TANZANIA remains East Africa’s most peaceful and calm nation than most of the developed world like France, the United States of America (USA) and the United Kingdom (UK), the report reveals.
The Global Peace Index (GPI) 2018 report released this weekend by the Institute for Economic and Peace (IEP), shows Tanzania improved by ranking 51, gaining three positions from 54 in 2017.
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The most powerful nation on earth, USA is ranked 121st while the UK ranked 57, six positions behind Tanzania. The UK dropped 16 positions compared to its 2017 rank. The study covers 163 independent nations and territories around the
world.
This is good news for most Tanzanians and Africa about the reality of their narrative compared to the Africa of the Western media. Tanzania is one of the top five countries in Africa whose economies is the fastest on the continent. The nation is a beacon of peace and harmony in east and southern Africa.
Tanzania also tops the East African Community member states ranking 9th in African Continent. Other East African countries with their rankings in brackets include Rwanda (103), Uganda (107) Kenya (123) Burundi (134) and South Sudan (161).
This report reveals the truth on the status of nations as most Africa nations were labeled as notorious in killings and abductions as those in the West. The study uses various indicators to determine which nations are the most dangerous, as well as which are the most peaceful.
Why Not US and UK?
The UK dropped 16 positions to what it was ranked in 2017 and the USA dropped 7 rankings on the same year. The two giant economies, despite seemingly positive coverage by its global media, are understood to have high criminal records creating poor conditions for internal peace.
According to the FBI, in 2018 there were
424,066 entries at the US National Crime Information Centre (NCIC) for missing children. In 2017, the total number of missing children entries into NCIC was 464,324 including abduction and non abduction cases.
During the last 34 years, NCMEC’s national toll-free hotline, 1-800-THE-LOST® (1-800-843-5678), has received more than
4.8 million calls.
In 1999, 800,000 there were reported missing of which 203,900 reported as victims of family abductions and 58,200 of non-family abductions.
GunPolicy.org estimates that in 2010 there were 3.78 guns per 100 people in the UK. In the US the situation was worse. There were 101 guns per 100 people. In the UK, the results has been roughly 50 to 60 gun deaths a year in England and Wales, which have a population of 56 million.
According to the report released in 2011 by the UK’s National Policing Improvement Agency (NPIA), about 250,000 people go missing every year. Compared to the two nations, cases of abductions in Tanzania are isolated but fewer, not even quarter of those in the US and UK.
However, those few and isolated cases of abductions in Tanzania and in the rest of Africa, are promoted, overstated and blown out of proportions by the Western media to portray what is purported as gross human rights violations.
The abductions and killings in the United States and United Kingdom, making them less peaceful than Tanzania and some other African countries are placed behind the fewer cases occurring in Africa. The 51st ranking for Tanzania presents an increase on its stability under President John Pombe Magufuli. In 2015 when he came into power, Tanzania was ranked 64th.
The IEP report qualifies Tanzania in the top 10 most peaceful nations in Africa, occupying the ninth (9th) slot ahead of Senegal which is 10th , ranking 53rd in a the list. The report mentions the top five most peaceful nations in the world include Iceland, New Zealand, Austria, Portugal and Denmark.
South Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Central African Republic (CAR) ranked as the least peaceful nations on earth. The GPI covers 99.7% of the world’s population, using 23 qualitative and quantitative indicators from highly respected sources, and measures the state of peace using three thematic domains.
The domains are: the level of Societal Safety and Security; the extent of Ongoing Domestic and International Conflict; and the degree of Militarization.
The Global Peace Index 2018 report finds that the global level of peace has deteriorated by 0.27% over the last year. This is the fourth successive year of deterioration, finding that 92 countries have deteriorated, while 71 countries have improved. Nations considered more peaceful have lower index scores.
IEP is an independent, non-partisan dedicated to shifting the world's focus to peace as a positive, achievable and tangible measure of human well-being and progress.
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