What criteria would you use to determine the most peaceful/most violent industrialized countries?

[ZombieHorde]

War?

Saber rattling?

Violent crime rates within the country?

The gap between the rich and the poor?

Health care?

Environmental record?

Civil rights?

Which criterion would hold more weight than the other criteria, if any?

How long would you look back for your judgment? 10 years, 30 years, 50 years, 1,000 years, etc.?

Which country would you nominate for the most peaceful and which country would you nominate for the most violent?

[Xipe Totec]

1. Peaceful industrialized country is an oxymoron nt

[Warren Stupidity]

2. a mirror?

we win the most violent major industrial nation hands down and have been winning that category since 1945.

We are winning by so much that you can put everyone else in the other category.

[hack89]

3. Good thing we won that category in 1945

as bad as you think things are now, it doesn't even begin to approach what Japan and Germany had planned for the world.

[ladjf]

4. The number of deaths, the amount of money spent, the amount

of destruction done and the amount of time spent fighting.

[bemildred]

5. Wars?

More wars == more violent?

[ZombieHorde]

7. I know that particular criterion seems overly obvious, but yea, more war = more violent. nt

[bemildred]

8. Well then, it shoud be one of the first things to look at, eh? ny

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. The "defense" budget would be good start.