Peace and conflict

• Justice = making things fair again
• pacifism = belief that all violence in wrong
• reconciliation = making up between two groups after disagreement
• Peace = the opposite of war; harmony
• conflict = disagreement which escalates
• attitudes about the meaning and significance of justice:

  • christianity = just war.
  • islam = striving for justice
  • Buddhism = retaliation
• pacafist = believing all war and killing is wrong
• holy war = believing it is right to fight a war in the name of God
• just war = believing it is right to fight a war in the interests of justice and the greater good.
• where does evil come from within chritianity?


  The abuse of free will that god gave to humans which allows them to choose from right to wrong. Christians beileve in the devil/ satan, who tries to tempt people to behave badly
• where does evil come from within islam?


  The qur’an says there is a devil who was peviously an angel. When allah ordered the enels to bow to Adam, Iblis refused and was expelled from paradise, but was later able to cause adam and eves explusition from eden. Ibis temps humans to be wicked.
• quote to support capital punishment within islam: ‘eye for an eye’
• capital punishement = death penalty