Peace and Conflict 🤞 Flashcards
DEFINITION- Pacifism
The belief the water violence are unjustifiable and that disputes should be settled by peaceful means
DEFINITION- Conditional pacifism
peaceful methods are always preferable, but violence is justified under specific conditions
DEFINITION- Absolute pacifism
war and violence are never justifiable
DEFINITION- Active pacifism
protest or act to oppose war/violence
DEFINITION- Holy war
fighting for a religious cause of God to defend the religion and belief
DEFINITION- Just war
A wall that is morally or theologically justifiable
DEFINITION- Just ad bellum
criteria used to check that it is right to go to war
DEFINITION- Jus ad bella
criteria used to set out how a war should be carried out
DEFINITION- Nuclear weapons
weapons that work by nuclear reaction, devastating huge areas and killing mass number of people
DEFINITION- Chemical weapons
uses nonliving toxins such as nerve agents and mustard gas to cause death/illness
DEFINITION- biological weapons
uses living disease causing bacterium or viruses
how many nuclear weapons does russia and the US have?
5000+ each
PROS of nuclear weapons
-nuclear deterrence the power of these weapons is so huge that no one will dare use it due to the risk of mutually assured destruction.
-The threat of them can prevent war
-they end wars e.g. World War II.
CONS of Nuclear weapons
-could destroy the world and end the human race
-indiscriminate; the devastation is huge and kills an enormous amount of people radiation
-can affect a population for years to come
-damages environment
-risk of being obtained by terrorists
CHRISTIAN VIEW- nuclear weapons
The Catholic Church opposes weapons of mass destruction but recognises the nuclear deterrence
