Read more about it at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/22/world-less-violent-stats_n_1026723.html I like the way it draws attention to and gives credit to all the efforts that are being made, every day all over the world, to strive for peace - good work which rarely makes the newspapers....
I've sent for the interestingly titled book by Steven Pinker The Better Angels of Our Nature:Why Violence Has Declined.
We live in Interesting times....
This little siskin crashed into the greenhouse yesterday and stunned itself. It lay recovering for long enough for me to get a good look at and a photograph of its beautiful markings before flying off, apparently none the worse.