Peace And Conflict Flashcards
What is peace and pacifism
Peace means the world lives in harmony and no conflict
Pacifism believes war and violence is wrong and believes it should be settled peacefully
What forms does violence have
Crime -eh assault or murder
Terrorism -seeks fear and inflict suffering
War
Violence can occur during protests
What are the causes of war
Religion
Self defence
Tribalism
Honor
Greed
Retaliation
What are just wars
Conditions for a just war
A good reason
All other options have attempted to avoid war
Must be started by proper authority
Must have a reasonable chance of success
What is a holy war and why do people fight in them
Holy war is when people belive god is on their side
Religion is a factor in modern wars
Example civil war in Syria didn’t start over war but Shia and Sunni Muslims faught on differnt sides
Why do Christian’s belive people should be peaceful
Jesus teaching show that peace is goal for all human beings
Christian’s belibe you should love your enemies
Jesus said people shouldn’t follow the old testement teaching about retaliation
Christian’s shouldn’t meet violence with violence
Who is Dorothy day
Martin Luther king
Was a chatholic if activist who follows Jesus pacafist teachings she co founded the catholic worker, which was a anti war newspaper
Was a baptist minister who tried to change the way black people were treated
Who recognises just wars
Some Christian’s
Why are holy wars rejected by all Christian’s
In past holy wars were faught to convert people to Christianity
The vast majority of people don’t belive in holy wars anymore
How does islam teach people to be peaceful
Muslims belive they should do their part to bring around peace being praying and campaigning
Majority of Muslims disagree with pacifism as war is oftern justified
What is military jihad
A part of military jihad is known as holy war -its a war considered to be justified by god to protect Muslims and their religion
What are the similarities between military jihad and just war
It is justified to bring freedom from tyranny
Jihad must be in the name of Allah
If an Islamic war is assaulted then war is justified
What are weapons of mass destruction
Destroy massive lands of area all of once
Biological and chemical weapons are banned by international law
Arguement for and against of weapons of mass destruction
For
Serve as a deterrent to peace
They have a utilitarian perspective
Used for defence
Against
Huge loss of life and environmental damage
Costly
Go against the sancitcty of life
Earth is god creation -destroy god creation
Christian and Muslim views of weapons of mass destruction
Christians
Jesuses teachings of peace goes against
Help keep the peace as they’re deterrents
Muslims
WMD don’t follow the rules of the lesser jihad
Pakistan has wmd but other Muslim counties have come out against it for
