World Peace
- Created by: boy_repellent
- Created on: 14-05-14 12:28
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- World Peace
- The UN
- formed to preserve world peace
- it is important because it brings all the world together and can send peacekeeping forces to stop conflict
- after keeping the peace for 9 years it has helped establish a democratic Kosovar state
- promotion from religious oragnisations
- they try to promote world peace in all the world's religions by:
- going to war zones and supporting efforts to stop the war
- organising demonstrations against wars
- educating people about the need for world peace
- they try to promote world peace in all the world's religions by:
- Why wars occur:
- religion (if followers of a religion are being badly treated in another country etc)
- nationalism and ethnicity (if an ethnic group wants to set up its own country etc)
- economics (if a country has oil but its neighbour does not etc)
- political reasons (if one country is communist and wants to make other countries communist
- Just war theory is the idea that it is right to go to war if the reasons are just
- for example it has been agreed by the UN, or it is being fought in self-defence
- Christians attitudes to war:
- Some Christians believe that they should work for peace by refusing to fight in wars
- they believe Christians should be pacifists because Jesus taught Christians to love their enemies
- Pacifism means refusing to fight in wars
- they believe Christians should be pacifists because Jesus taught Christians to love their enemies
- Some Christians believe that the way to bring peace is to be prepared to fight in just wars
- They will fight to defend the weak and to bring peace to the world because this has always been the Church's teaching
- Some Christians believe that they should work for peace by refusing to fight in wars
- Muslims attitudes to war:
- Muslims believe in peace, but Islam teaches that if the faith is attacked, Muslims must defend their faith by fighting jihad (a just war fought in a just way)
- they believe this because it is taught in the Qur'an which they believe is the word of God
- Muslims believe in peace, but Islam teaches that if the faith is attacked, Muslims must defend their faith by fighting jihad (a just war fought in a just way)
- The UN
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