According to the Global Peace Index, released Tuesday by Britain's Economist Intelligence Unit and based on 24 indicators of external and internal measures of peace (including UN deployments overseas, levels of violent crime nationally, respect for human rights, and percentage of the country's gross domestic product allocated for military spending), and covering 140 countries, the Top 10 most peaceful countries are:

1. Iceland
2. Denmark
3. Norway
4. New Zealand
5. Japan.
6. Ireland
7. Portugal
8. Finland
9. Luxembourg
10. Austria

118. Thailand

Canada is at No. 11, Switzerland at 12th and Sweden 13th. This compares with Britain at 49th spot, China 67th, and the United States at 97, one place lower than last year. See http://www.visionofhumanity.org/gpi/res ... ings/2008/

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