Every year the Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) issues the “Global Peace Index” (GPI), the purpose of which is to score 163 nations according to their levels of peacefulness. The overall GPI score for 2021 indicates that the global situation – as a result of the coronavirus pandemic among others – has once again deteriorated.
War
Yesterday, the Russian airstrikes killed five people in the Babi Yar Holocaust memorial site on the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine. The infamous ravine saw 33,771 Jews killed by the Nazis in 24 hours during WW2.