RE peace & confilic
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- Created on: 29-03-15 12:47
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- Peace & conflict.
- The United nations
- It was formed at the end of the second world war.
- What they do.
- Impose sanctions on countries threatening world peace.
- They authorise or deny the use of force by countires.
- Send in th UN peacekeeping force to:
- Prevent the outbreak of conflict.
- help make peace agreements work.
- Stabolise conflict situations and bring about long lasting peace.
- Bring about a stable goverment in conflict areas.
- The UN have white tanks so are easily identified.
- Attitudes to war
- Christians attitudes
- Some christians are Pacifism- refuse to fight at all.
- Why
- Jesus said christians should love their enemies.
- They should turn the other cheek when attaked.
- The fifth commandment says "do not kill"
- Jesus would not let Peter fight back when he was arrested.
- Horriable things happen to innocent civilians in madern wars.
- They believe that peace will only come when people refuse to fight.
- Modern warfare affects so many innocent people that they can never be justifyed.
- Why
- Some will fight but only in just wars
- Most churches teach that it is their purpose to strive for peace. Even if it means fighting.
- St Paul, said that christians should obey the orders of the goverment, so christians should fight in wars if ordered by the goverment.
- Jesus did not condemn soldiers.
- He even parised a Roman centurion for his faith.
- They believe that if we need a police force to protect innocent people against criminals, then we need armed forces to protect innocent states against criminal ones.
- Some christians are Pacifism- refuse to fight at all.
- Islams (muslims) attitudes
- There is no idea of Pacifism in Islam.
- Most Muslims believe they should fight in just wars because:
- The Qur'an says that Muslims must fight if they are attaked.
- Muhammad fought in wars.
- There are many hadith from Muhammad saying Muslims should fight in just wars.
- The Qur'an says that a Muslim who die in a just war will go straight to heaven.
- However some Muslims feel that beacuse of the nature os modern weapons means that not war can be just, so they are opposed to all wars.
- Christians attitudes
- Just wars
- If a war can be justifyed for good reasons then it is a just war.
- What is a just war.
- Fought in self-defence.
- Being fought by the UN.
- To bring back peace.
- It is a last resourt.
- There is a good chance of success.
- If inoccent civilians are procted.
- To prevent weapons of mass destruction being used against other countries.
- Why wars occur.
- Religion
- Different Beliefs
- Majority one religion, minority another.
- Misstreated by a differnt religion.
- Nationalism and ethnicity.
- The belief that the minority should be removed.
- Each enthnicity should have a separate country.
- Economics.
- many think that Iraq was invaded by west because of oil reserves.
- Migration of refugees because of the economic crisis.
- Political differences.
- Dictatorships.
- People who support the goverment fighting the people against the goverment.
- Religion
- The United nations
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