Absence of Political Violence

This sub-sub-indicator assesses the levels of polit­ic­al vi­ol­ence and ter­ror that a coun­try ex­per­i­ences in a par­tic­u­lar year based on a 5-level 'ter­ror scale'. Political terror is defined as violations of basic human rights to the physical integrity of the person by agents of the state within the territorial boundaries of the state in question. It includes torture and cruel and unusual treatment and punishment, beatings, excessive use of force, brutality, rape, sexual assault and violence, forced sterilisation, intentional neglect, withholding of food and medical care (typically in prisons), killings, custodial deaths, unlawful use of deadly force, summary or extra-judicial killings and executions, political assassinations and murder, political imprisonment, arbitrary arrest and detention and political imprisonment, incommunicado and clandestine imprisonment and detention, forced disappearances and kidnappings, forced relocations and removal, forced labour, slavery and chield soldiering. Agents of the state include police, law enforcement, guards and security personnel, military and paramilitary organisations, executives and members of executive agencies and bureaucracies, members of the criminal justice and penal systems, intelligence agents, militias, death squads, political parties and their organisations, mercenaries and private military contractors, foreign personnel such as peacekeepers supplementing domestic capacity.

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