Key words

• 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 commited
• Forgiveness - showing grace and mercy and pardoning someone for what they have done wrong
• Reconciliation - a sacrament in the Catholic Church; also when individuals or groups restore friendly relations after conflict
• Protest - an expression of disapproval, often in a public group
• Violence - using actions that threaten or harm others
• 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 others
• Retaliation - deliberately harming someone as a response to them harming you
• Nuclear weapons - weapons that work by nuclear reaction; they devastate huge areas and kill large numbers of people
• Weapons of mass destruction - they can kill large numbers of people and care great damage
• Chemical weapons - weapons that use chemicals to poison, burn or paralyse humans and destroy nature
• Biological weapons - have living organisms or ineffective material that can lead to disease or death
• Lesser jihad - the outward struggle to defend ones faith
• Just war - a war which meets internationally accepted criteria for fairness; follows traditional Christian rules for a just war
• Holy war - fighting for a religious cause or God, probably controlled by a religious leader
• Pacifism - the belief of people who refuse to take part in war and any other form of violence
• Peacemaker - a person who works to establish peace in the world or in a certain part of it
• Peacemaking - the action of trying to establish peace