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PULA!! |Botswana 🇧🇼one of two countries in the world to achieve “high peace” since 2008 bit.ly/2zSMtR7

The international Institute for Economics and Peace #IEP has released its Positive Peace Report for 2017, in which it is reported that

Botswana is one of only two countries in the world to have graduated to a “high peace” ranking over the past decade.

In its section on “Transitions to Higher Levels of Peace” the report specifically states that:

“Between 2008 and 2016, only two countries improved from Mid to the High Peace group.

These countries are Botswana and Serbia.”

The report went further in observing that: “These societies were more transparent with higher levels of free flow of information

and had better business environments. They also had higher numbers of security and police forces.”

#IEP defines “Positive Peace” as an empirically based framework which has been developed to identify

and understand the factors which are statistically associated with peaceful and resilient societies, reflecting their internal capacity

to meet the needs of its citizens, reduce and deal with grievances without the use of violence.

In the report, Positive Peace is comparatively measured by IEP on the Positive Peace Index (PPI),

in which Botswana is currently ranked 43 out of 163 nations based on a composite score for eight core governance categories, namely:

• Well Functioning Government
• Sound Business Environment
• Equitable Distribution of Resources
• Acceptance of the Rights of Others

• Good Relations with Neighbors
• Free Flow of Information
• High Levels of Human Capital
• Low Level of Corruption

In its report IEP further notes that its research has demonstrated that high levels of peacefulness are associated with

strength in not just one, but all eight factors of Positive Peace.

All domains are highly interrelated and work together systemically in producing a peaceful society.

The top five places in the 2017 Positive Peace Index are occupied by Sweden, Switzerland, Finland, Norway and Denmark.

Botswana along with Mauritius are the only two African countries with aggregate scores in all eight governance categories

of above 2.54 indicating “Very High Levels of Peace”

IEP also produces the annual Global Peace Index (GPI), whose 2017 edition ranked Botswana is currently ranked 27 out of 163 countries.

GPI is said to focus on the absence of "negative" measures such as levels of violence, while PPI focuses of "positive", i.e. good governance

IEP has further listed Botswana in its top ten low conflict societies.

Extensive summary here👉facebook.com/BotswanaGovern…