Terrorist attacks at an all-time HIGH with Middle East conflicts to blame, study warns
TERRORIST attacks are at an all-time high and more people are currently displaced than at any time since World War Two, a new study has shown.
Express.co.uk
Wed, Jun 8, 2016
The annual 2016 Global Peace Index also showed deaths from conflicts have reached a 25-year high.
According to the index, which measures 23 indicators including incidents of violent crime, countries’ levels of militarisation and weapons imports, intensifying conflicts in the Middle East were mostly to blame.
But beyond the Middle East, the world was actually becoming more peaceful, researchers behind the index said.
Steve Killelea, founder of the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) which produces the index, said: “Quite often, in the mayhem which is happening in the Middle East currently, we lose sight of the other positive trends.”
He added: “If we look in the last year, if we took out the Middle East the world would have become more peaceful.”
More than 100,000 were killed in conflict in 2014, up from nearly 20,000 in 2008. Syria, where nearly 67,000 people were killed in 2014, accounted for the bulk of the increase, according to the index.
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