Additional Data:

                                                                      (Sources not Secure)

- every 15 seconds a women in U.S. is beaten by current or former husband or intimate partner

-30% of female murder victims are killed by intimate partners.

-A woman is battered every 13 seconds
-Between 2 & 4 million women abused annually

-1,500 - 2,000 women are murdered each year by current or former partners(FBI)

-2/3 of men who beat their wives also abuse their children (stark & fitcraft)

1/3 of all teenagers report having experienced violence in a datingrelationship

-4 million women are victims of severe assaults by boyfriends & husbands each year.

-1 in 4 are likely to be abused by a partner in her lifetime (sara glazer,"violence against women," CQ reseacher congressional quarterly inc.vol13,no.8 feb 1998.p.171.)

-Females are victims of family violence at a rate of 3 times that of males (bureau of justice stats.hglghts from 20 yrs. Of surveying crime victims wash.dc.us dept of justice 1993 p25)

-30% of female murders in 1992 were by husbands or boyfriends (U.C.R.FBI 1993.p.16)

-Battered women increase risk of being murdered when they try to escape (NYC dept of health)

-81% of men who batter had fathers who abused their mothers (n.j. dept. of community affairs divison of women)
-1500 American women are murdered by husbands or boyfriends each year (FBI UCS.1996)

School Statistics

1996-97 School violence reported-
4,170 rape or sexual battery
7,150 robberies
10,950 physical attack or fight w/ weapon
98,490 vandalism
115,500 theft larceny

source; U.S. dept of ed. National center for edu. Stats
College Campus in U.S. crime stats. National center for education stats.

1996-97 School year 50 states reported expelling an est. 6,093 of the 46 million public students for bringing a firearm to school.

 

WAR

Okinawa 1945
April 1 1945 - Aug.15 1945
13,395 killed
57,000 casualties
4.5 months of battle
provided by the 96th RSC affairs office (801) 656 4133

Revolutionary war

                                        4,435 killed

                                        Civil war
                                        498,332 killed

                                        WWI
                                        116,708 killed
                                        WWII
                                        407,316 killed

     

  Korea 

  25,604 killed

  Vietnam 

  58,168 killed  

  Rapes
  per year

  2000- 90,178
  2001- 90,491

Unfortunately, figures of violence highlighted above are on a path of continuous increase in spite of the prosperity we claim to achieve. Such a destructive path can only be curbed only if at the highest level of Government , peace building is adopted as a leading political stance with civil society co-operation in the peace process: besides designing non-violent  and peaceful means of resolving   conflicts and creating conditions for a culture of peace

Global Peace Index – Study of 121 countries of the world

Global Peace Index campaign was taken up for  the client “Global Peace Index” by Edelam UK (Public affairs and strategic media unit) during January to May 2007, which came up with a report ranking 121 countries according to their “Peacefulness”. This is first such undertaking of its kind in the world. The analysis into each nation’s peace has considered mainly seven indicators or drivers to work out peace index, scores and ranking

   

which are namely indicator information, democracy and transparency, international openness, demographics, education, culture and material wel being. For each of the indicator , number of sub-indicators have been identified and scores given to determine the rank of each country. Peace index scores from 1 to 5 where 1 is the most peaceful country. Two sub-components weighted indices from the group of indicators each adopted (a) a measure of  how at peace internally a country is (b) a measure of how at peace externally. The overall composite score and index was formulated by applying a weight of 60 percent to measure of internal peace and 40 percent for external peace. The analysis of 121 nation’s peace and their ranking of global peace index (GPI) is placed below.

                                                                                                                    

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