Oman ranked among most peaceful Arab countries

Sydney: The Sultanate has been ranked 5th in the Arab world and 73th worldwide in the Global Peace Index (GPI), which ranks 163 independent states and territories on the basis of how peaceful they are.
Produced by the Australia-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP), the GPI is the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness.
The Sultanate, which earned 1,984 points, was ranked 1st in the Arab world for the absence of internal conflict and sub-external conflict and fourth in the social security and peace index.
Iceland topped the list, followed by New Zealand, Austria, Portugal, Denmark, Canada, Czech Republic and Singapore.
The second version of GPI for 2018 pointed out that the world has become less peaceful that it has been at any time during the past few decades.
The index measures peace by using three fields, namely the level of security and social peace, internal and external conflict, and the degree of militarisation.
The Global Peace Index 2018 report found that the global level of peace deteriorated by 0.27 per cent over the last year, for what is the fourth successive. It found that the level on peace in 92 countries has deteriorated, while in 71 countries it has improved.
The report reveals a world in which tensions, conflicts and crises that have emerged over the past decade remain unresolved, causing a gradual, sustained decline in global levels of peacefulness.