RE PEACE AND CONFLICT

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    • War
      Fighting between nations to resolve issues between them
    • Peace
      An absence of conflict, which leads to happiness and harmony
    • Justice
      Bringing about what is right and fair, according to the law or making up for a wrong that has been committed
    • Forgiveness
      Showing grace and mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong
    • Reconciliation
      Restoration of harmony after relationships have broken down
    • Violence
      Using actions that can threaten or harm others
    • Protest
      An expression of disapproval, often in a public group
    • Terrorism
      The unlawful use of violence, usually against innocent civilians, to achieve a political goal
    • Greed
      Selfish desire for something
    • Self-defence
      Acting to prevent harm to yourself or others
    • Retatilation
      Deliberately harming someone as a response to them harming you
    • Islamic Peace Quote
      "The servants of the Lord of Mercy are those who walk humbly on the earth, and who, when aggressive people address them, reply, with words of peace."
    • Al-Muqsit
      "The Just"
    • Quakers
      A denomination of Christianity that will never participate in war despite all reasoning
    • Christianity: A time when God will bring peace

      "He (God) will judge between the nations and will settle disputes for many peoples."
    • NON RELIGIOUS: Laurent Fabius said?
      "We are in the process of winning the war. We also have to win the peace. And winning the peace involves a whole series of acts to help democracy and development."
    • Islam: OPPOSE violence & killing

      "Do not kill each other, for God is merciful to you. If any of you does these things, out of hostility and injustice, we shall make him suffer fire."
    • Islam: OPPOSE killing
      "Do not take life, which God has made sacred."
    • NON RELIGIOUS: Former UK Prime Minister, Tony Blair
      "The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which [terrorists] then use to justify terror."
    • Islam: OPPOSE greed

      "God does not like arrogant, boastful people, who are miserly and order other people to be the same, hiding the bounty God has given them."
    • Islam: AGREE war: self-defence
      "Those who have been attacked are permitted to take up arms because they have been wronged - God has the power to help them."
    • Islam: AGREE retaliation
      "Fair retribution [retaliation] saves lives for you, people of understanding, so that you may guard yourselves against what is wrong."
    • Islam: AGREE retaliation
      "If you [believers] have to respond to an attack, make your response proportionate, but it is best to stand fast."
    • Islam: AGREE retaliation
      "...There is cause to act against those who oppress people and transgress in the land against all justice... though if a person is patient and forgives, this is one of the greatest things."
    • Christianity: OPPOSE greed
      "For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs."
    • Christianity: OPPOSE retaliation
      "Do not repay anyone evil for evil. ...If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone."
    • Christianity: OPPOSE retaliation
      "But I tell you, do not resist an evil person. If anyone slaps you on the cheek, turn to them the other cheek also."
    • Nuclear weapons
      Weapons that work by a nuclear reaction that devastate huge areas and kill large numbers of people
    • Weapons of mass destruction
      Weapons that can kill large numbers of people and/or cause great damage
    • Chemical weapons
      Weapons that use chemicals to poison, burn or paralyse humans and destroy the natural environment
    • Biological weapons
      Weapons that have living organisms or infective material that can lead to disease or death
    • Islam: OPPOSE weapons of mass destruction
      "Do not contribute to your destruction with your own hands, but do good, for God loves those who do good."
    • Islam: AGREE war: self-defence
      "Fight in God's cause against those who fight you, but do not overstep the limits: God does not love those who overstep the limits."
    • NON RELIGIOUS: OPPOSE weapons of mass destruction (Steve Hucklesby)

      "Faith groups in the UK are united in their conviction that any use of nuclear weapons would violate the sanctity of life and the principle of dignity core to our faith traditions."
    • Christianity: OPPOSE killing

      One of the ten commandments, "You shall not murder."
    • Christianity: AGREE war

      "If there is a serious injury, you are to take life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth.."
    • Lesser jihad
      The outward struggle to defend one's faith, family and country from threat
    • Just war
      A war which meets internationally accepted criteria of fairness; follows traditional Christian rules for a just war, and is now accepted by all other religions
    • Islam: AGREE war (just)

      "Let those of you who are willing to trade the life of this world for the life to come, fight in God's way. To anyone who fights in God's way, whether killed or victorious, We shall give a great reward."
    • Islam: OPPOSE war
      "Know that the evil of war is swift, and its taste bitter." (Hadith)
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