- 76 percent of Americans would boycott a company’s products or services if it engaged in unlawful or unethical business practices. [14]
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- A recent report from the World Economic Forum finds that the mainstream financial community places little emphasis on social, environmental, and ethical issues in its investment decisions. [16]
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- 61percent of the general public has "some or a lot" of trust in NGOs. Only 44 percent puts as much trust in national governments. [17]
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- In Transparency International’s 2007 Corruption Perceptions Index, Somalia and Myanmar share the lowest score of 1.4 (on a scale from 0 to 10, with 0 indicating high levels of perceived corruption and 10 indicating low levels of perceived corruption). As evidence of the correlation between corruption and poverty, 40% of the countries scoring below 3 are classified by the World Bank as low-income. [18]
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- 33 new sovereign countries have been created since 1990, largely due to the dissolution of the USSR and Yugoslavia. Other separatist states, like South Ossetia and Abkhazia, have declared independence, but the international community remains divided on their status. [19]
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- Nearly 500 million people live in states considered to be fragile, countries unable or unwilling to assure the security and provision of basic services to a significant portion of their population. [20]
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- According to the UN Refugee Agency, there are eleven million “stateless” people, people without citizenship of any country, across the world. [21]
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- 93.3 percent of Americans believe that political leaders spend too much time attacking each other. [23]
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Seven Revolutions 