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QUESTION 2
DOES THE PROPORTION OF RELIGIOUS BELIEF
OR ATHEISM IN A COUNTRY DETERMINE THE PEACE
OF THE COUNTRY?
There is no clear statistical relationship between either
the presence or the absence of religious belief and
conflict. Even at the extremes, the least peaceful
countries are not necessarily the most religious and vice
versa.For example, when looking at the ten most
peaceful countries three would be described as highly
religious, and when looking at the ten least peaceful
nations two would be described as the least religious.
Conversely, the absence of religious belief, as manifested
by atheism, also sees no significant link to broader
societal peacefulness.
Referenced from the very same organization that did the Peacefulness study you cited.
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QUESTION 5
CAN RELIGION PLAY A POSITIVE ROLE IN PEACEBUILDING?
While a lot of analysis may focus on the negative role of
religion it is important to acknowledge the potential positive
role of religion in peacebuilding through inter-faith dialogue
and other religiously-motivated movements.It was found
that countries that had higher membership of religious
groups tended to be slightly more peaceful.
Whaddya know?
Frankly I'm confused by what you were referring to in the map anyway, because there's not that much overlap between the two maps. Just a misleading representation given how big Canada and Australia are.
Oh look:
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There is not a statistically meaningful relationship
between the levels of atheism or religious belief in a
country and its levels of peace.
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Four out of the ten countries with the highest levels of
atheism are less peaceful than the global average.
Fascinating.
http://economicsandpeace.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Peace-and-Religion-Report.pdfThis post was edited by Voyaging on Sep 18 2016 12:18am