A_B_ peace & terror etc.

2008
Edition of 100
618 mm X 1000 mm
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A_B_ … is a geopolitical survey of the 192 member states of the United Nations with regard to the quantitative degree to which each contributes to peace and terror in the world.

The project is a dual-sided poster where the A_ side displays measures of peace, while the B_ side, measures of terror. For each of the A_B_ measures, the graph is divided into 3 rings (3 separate indexes for peace and 3 separate indexes for terror) that are individual quantitative measures obtained from researchers working in the field of geopolitics. The quantitative variation for the peace and terror measures is represented as variation in line thickness: thin line=low value, thick line=high value.

Highest ranked countries for contributions to peace : Vanuatu, Costa Rica, Dominica, Bhutan and Switzerland. Highest ranked countries for contributions to terror : Israel, Russian Federation, Republic of Korea, United States of America and Eritrea.

The functional nature of the poster becomes poignantly relevant when one makes detailed comparisons across nations for the various measures—many of the results are quite surprising and stand in contrast to prevailing norms of collective national perception.