By: Mohamed Sahr
Institute for Economics and Peace rated Sierra Leone as one of the most peaceful countries in the world with a score of 1.801 (ranking 50) in its 2022 Global Peace Index on Wednesday 13th July, 2022.
Teddy Foday Musa, Representative of the Institute for Economics and Peace said the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) has been the world’s leading measure of global peacefulness and presents the most comprehensive data-driven analysis to-date on trends in peace, its economic value, and how to develop peaceful societies.
‘’The Institute for Economics and Peace is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank dedicated to shifting the world’s focus to peace as a positive, achievable, and tangible measure of human well-being and progress. IEP achieves its goals by developing new conceptual frameworks to define peacefulness; providing metrics for measuring peace,’’ Teddy Foday Musa affirmed.
He revealed that on the 2022 Global Peace Index list of 163 countries, Sierra Leone was ranked 50th with a maximum score of 1.801 which put the country in the second category that indicated Sierra Leone as one of the most peaceful countries in the world.
Teddy Foday Musa said only Ghana and the Gambia were ahead of Sierra Leone in West Africa, with the country taking 3rd position in the West Africa sub-region. He disclosed that Sierra Leone has been spotted among 90 countries that recorded improvements in peacefulness from the 2021 to 2022 Global Peace Index assessment. ‘’This status is shared with great industrialised nations like Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and Australia, to name a few,’’ IEP Representative said.
He stated that Sierra Leoneans have once again displayed their resilience and quest for peace; adding that this pattern has been a constant trend since the end of the war in 2002. Teddy Foday Musa revealed that the International community portrayed the country’s transition from conflict to peace and development as a success story.
