Systematic Peace News Today

<p>A new report that grades all the countries of the world on their respect for human rights paints a grim picture of human rights practices in the 21<sup>st</sup> century.</p> <p>Produced by the Global RIghts Project (GRIP), a research team based in the University of Rhode Island’s Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies, the report draws on a vast quantitative human rights dataset to grade each country’s human rights practices on a 100-point s...

America, long held as the standard for Democracy, has slipped according to international surveys because it has fallen into "anocracy."

“Democracy” may not be the unruly, confusing, rough and tumble thing to grade that some people think it is. The Center for Systematic Peace is sitting back judging the institution for us all on a 10 point scale. It turns out to be more like competitive diving, gymnastics and ice-skating than your average Joe realized. Dana Milbank sees his country slipping into the clutches of Tonya Harding democracy. He’ll take nothing less than Thornton Melon democracy. The Washington Post scribe demands...