{"id":86782,"date":"2019-11-22T14:00:15","date_gmt":"2019-11-22T14:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=86782"},"modified":"2019-11-23T07:01:23","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T07:01:23","slug":"global-terrorism-index-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/global-terrorism-index-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Global Terrorism Index 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<strong>Question: Consider the following statements:<\/strong>\n<br>(1)\tAfghanistan was most impacted by terrorism in 2018\n<br>(2)\tIndia is highly impacted by terrorism and is ranked 7th\n<strong><br>Of the above correct statement\/s is\/are:<\/strong>\n<br>(a)\tOnly (1)\n<br>(b)\tOnly (2)\n<br>(c)\tBoth (1) &amp; (2)\n<br>(d)\tNone of the above\n<strong><br>Answer: (c)\n<br>Related facts:<\/strong>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">null<li>In order to measure the impact of terrorism,the\nseventh edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) report was produced by the\nInstitute for Economics &amp; Peace (IEP) on November 20,2019.<\/li><li>The report assesses 163 countries mapping\nterrorism within its region.<\/li><li>As per report, Afghanistan is now the country\nmost impacted by terrorism &#8211; counting 7,379 deaths from terrorism &#8211; an increase\nof 59%.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>2019 Report key\nfindings:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The total number of deaths from terrorism\ndeclined for the fourth consecutive year in 2018, falling by 15.2% to 15,952\ndeaths. This represents a 53% reduction since its peak in 2014 when 33,555\npeople were killed in terrorist attacks.<\/li><li>Between 2002 and 2018, South Asia, MENA (Middle\nEast and North Africa) and Sub Saharan Africa accounted for 93 per cent of all\ndeaths from terrorism.<\/li><li>South Asia has had the highest impact from\nterrorism since 2002, while Central America and the Caribbean region has had\nthe lowest impact.<\/li><li>The Taliban is now the deadliest terrorist group\nin the world, accounting for 38 per cent of all terrorist deaths. This is an\nincrease of 71%.<\/li><li>Terrorism still remains a global security threat\nwith 71 countries recording more than one death &#8211; the second highest number of\ncountries since 2002.<\/li><li>Deaths in Europe fell by 70%. Western Europe\nrecorded its lowest number of incidents since 2012.<\/li><li>Female suicide attacks are still a small\npercentage of all terrorist attacks, accounting for 5% of suicide attacks from\n1985 to 2018.<\/li><li>The global economic impact of terrorism was\nUS$33 billion in 2018; a substantial decrease of 38% from the previous year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Five most &amp; least\nterrorism affected countries:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Syria and Pakistan\nare the most impacted countries holding consecutively the top five positions.<\/li><li>Belarus, Guinea-Bissau, Oman, The Gambia and\nNorth Korea are the least impacted countries.<\/li><li>India with score of 7.518 has been ranked 7<sup>th<\/sup>\nin the 2019 index.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Far right terrorism\nin the west:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>There has been an increase in far-right\nterrorism in Western Europe, North America, and Oceania for the third\nconsecutive year.<\/li><li>In North America, Western Europe, and Oceania,\nfar-right attacks increased by 320 per cent over the past five years.<\/li><li>Far-right terrorism is also more likely to be\ncarried out by individuals unaffiliated with a specific terrorist group. <\/li><li>The rise in politically motivated attacks by\nunaffiliated individuals comes at a time when Positive Peace is declining\nacross the West. Declines in Positive Peace are usually associated with higher\nlevels of social disorder.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/sites\/reliefweb.int\/files\/resources\/GTI-2019web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/sites\/reliefweb.int\/files\/resources\/GTI-2019web.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/sites\/reliefweb.int\/files\/resources\/GTI-2019-briefingweb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/reliefweb.int\/sites\/reliefweb.int\/files\/resources\/GTI-2019-briefingweb.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Consider the following statements: (1) Afghanistan was most impacted by terrorism in 2018 (2) India is highly impacted by terrorism and is ranked 7th Of the above correct statement\/s is\/are: (a) Only (1) (b) Only (2) (c) Both (1) &amp; (2) (d) None of the above Answer: (c) Related facts: null In order to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":86783,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1087],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-intne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}