Presidential Reconstruction. At the end of May 1865, President Andrew Johnson announced his plans for Reconstruction, which reflected both his staunch Unionism and his firm belief in statesâ rights.
In 2013, the Spartacus Gay Travel Index features a majority of Western European countries in the top 11 (Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Finland, Belgium, France, the Netherlands, United Kingdom and Spain), plus Canada, New Zealand and Uruguay.
African and Asian countries are among the least peaceful in the world, ravaged by conflicts that have drawn in international players, as well as terrorism and civil disorder. The conflict in Syria has led to the country being the most violent in the world, with a peace score of 3.6. Iraq and Afghanistan are the next least peaceful countries, with scores of 3.4 each. In 2008, there were only three countries that had a peace score worse than 3 out of 5: Somalia, Iraq and Sudan.