Essays About Peace

Humans are obsessed with categorizing. We split the people and things of the world into millions of groups and give them names, characteristics, and stereotypes. Ethnicity, sexuality, religion, political view, genus and species: these all reflect the human's constant need to note, name, and categorize. Still not convinced? Look at a dictionary. The fact that it was even created proves a tendency of the human mind to solidify things, their category, their characteristics, and their definition. Most brains do not do well with the abstract noun. Words like love, justice, fairness, and peace bounce about and cannot be tamed by a definition. This doesn't stop humans though. Our constant need to classify and define still raises the incessant...show more content...

She brings up the creation of the United Nations after WWII and the atomic bomb, in order to exhibit the willingness of nations to strive collectively for peace post–disaster. Corkalo claims that humans have natural psychological instincts that result in protectiveness and pride for the social, religious, political, or racial group they belong to. This sense of self–importance and righteousness is the root problem of most conflict. Corkalo believes that peace education would work to create intercultural training programs that break down the barriers of misconceptions, stereotypes, and discriminations, while maintaining the worth and validity of each social group. Corkalo's proposal is ideal. I agree that giving the young generation the key to intercultural understanding, equal opportunity, and worth would bring great peace. The decomposition of peace for the purpose of education is a fascinating process that unveils its complexity and relevance to nearly all subjects. However, it is so complex that to teach its vast array of components appears to be nearly impossible. If peace were attempted to be taught internationally, students would take extensive amounts of classes in the fields of sociology, psychology, theology, political science, languages, and history. This line up of

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Peace of God

The "Peace of God" encompasses a wide array of definitions. "Peace of God" is a gift from God. It is simpler than the peace that we may think. For example, I picked a sample of three gentlemen in my fraternity and asked them what is their first thought that arises with the phrase "Peace of God." The responses in order was:

. A society without wars

. A God that condemns wars

. A union of all religions. As interesting as their responses are, my research has found that the peace that God has endowed within his people are, "peace of mind and heart."

Site http://www.realtime.net/~wdoud/ice/peace.html exhibits an interesting viewpoint of "Peace of God." It begins by defining peace from the ...show more content...

"Quit quarreling with God. Agree with Him and you will have peace at last." The site continues to define peace as making things right with God. That is by faith one will know what is God's will and follow it, by this one makes things right with God. "So now, since we have been made right in God's sight by faith in his promises, we can have real peace with him because of what Jesus Christ our Lord has done for us" (Romans 5:1). And further the site continues to define peace as obeying God's law. As in Psalm 119:165, "Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble." In essence the scripture emphasizes that through following God's law one will find everlasting peace. The different aspects of peace in this site is extremely relevant to the chivalrous way of life. First of all, it is impossible to be a successful chivalrous knight when he is constantly quarreling with God. Since it is God's will regarding if a knight wins or losses a war or where his journey is to lead, the constant quarreling will only lead to a confused knight without peace. Also under the chivalric code, knights are supposed to act on what is right with God. Only through faith can they realize the true path, but all their deeds are supposed to be for God's glory. And lastly, a chivalric knight always obeys God's laws without

After a millennium of conflict and war–what chance of a millennium of peace? Some ten millennia ago civilization emerged in the Middle East, as the people of that area learned to till the earth and grow crops, thus opening the way to the ownership of land and the accumulation of wealth, and also to population growth and urban settlement. This new way of life created the potential for conflicts between towns and states and, later, between empires. This civilization brought warfare in its train.

While these new state structures was evolving, Christianity was becoming a predominantly European religion. And the power of that religion's moral teaching, however much distorted by human failings of clergy and rulers, inspired an extraordinary...show more content...

Not, perhaps, in the short run. But I would be optimistic that over the century ahead peace and order under just such an international rule of law may also take hold gradually in other continents. For global public opinion, alerted and informed by the electronic as well as the printed media, has become increasingly hostile to the brutality of inter–ethnic and inter–state violence and to continuing gross breaches of human rights.

As we enter the third millennium, this should, I believe, become the key objective of public policy worldwide.

I believe it is the dove of peace, which, taking its aerial flight from the dome of the capitol, carries the glad tidings of assured peace and restored harmony to all the remotest extremities of this distracted land. I believe that it will be attended with all these beneficent effects. And now let us discard all resentment, all passions, all petty jealousies, all personal desires, all love of place, all hankerings after the gilded crumbs which fall from the table of power. Let us forget popular fears, from whatever quarter they may spring. Let us go to the limpid fountain of unadulterated patriotism, and, performing a solemn lustration, return divested of all selfish, sinister, and sordid impurities, and think alone of our God, our country, our consciences, and our glorious Union–that

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First of all, what is peace? We all know that peace is just being quiet and calm. But what is the real definition of peace? Well, peace is actually a freedom from disturbance. In other words, tranquillity. It is also the absence or the cessation of war or violence. In the modern world we are living now,human race is getting more and more repulsive. Human rights are no longer served like they were used to, humans are being so self–centred for themselves that they became ignorant of what their words or actions might consequence in. At this point, it might lead to feelings hurt emotionally or even suicidal thoughts issue. The effect of this is that it could cause joys of serenity only reigning in the heart of those with high self–esteem and selfishness.

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Introduction To Peace And Conflict Peace is when individuals can resolve their conflicts without violence and can cooperate to enhance the quality of their lives. Peace is when everybody lives in security, without fear or danger of brutality and no type of violence is endured in law or practically speaking everybody is equivalent under the watchful eye of the law. The frameworks for equity are trusted, and reasonable and powerful laws ensure individuals' rights. Everybody can participate in forming political choices and the administration is responsible to the general population. Everybody has reasonable and rise to access to the fundamental requirements for their wellbeing for example food, clean water, shelter, education, human services and...show more content...

We have our own political, religious and personal ideals. We have our own opinions about how this world should be and how people should live in it. Due to this we make hindrances, both physical and mental, which stop us making worldwide connections and relationships. The most important thing is that by nature human beings tend to move toward conflict. It's in their nature. Especially the wars that have happened in the past have created a legacy of hatred that has carried on from one generation to the other. Children at a very young age are taught to hate or differentiate between people of different race, culture, religion etc. Our parents taught us we pass it to our next generation. In this way it becomes a never–ending

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We Must Build a Culture of Peace

" Think global, act local" is an appealing slogan, but the advice falls short. We live in a world where our best friends live on different continents and we converse more with our neighbor in Nigeria than our neighbor next door. No longer is it logical to say, "Charity begins at home." Instead, our work for human dignity and human rights must be carried on everywhere at once. To create aglobal culture of peace, youth of the new millennium must think and act both "global" and "local" contemporaneously.

Youth with a burning inner desire to see a global culture of peace must seek opportunities and relationships in which to demonstrate peace. Over 50 years ago, a child fugitive knew this...show more content...

Youth would meet to have fun, learn about each other's differences and similarities, assess the needs of the community, and then go out "diverse but united" into our neighborhoods to meet those needs.

Our multicultural cohesiveness and desire to help the community would serve as an example that all peoples can work together to create a culture of peace. We could raise money for our service projects and raise community awareness of global cultures simultaneously by sponsoring international dinners, multicultural folk dance exhibitions, foreign language fairs, art fairs with a multicultural theme, foreign film festivals, and peace concerts featuring ethnic music.

While acting at the local level, young people must also act at the national level to promote peace. Letters, phone calls, emails, and petitions to Congressmen and the President make a difference. Youth can join national organizations, such as Students Against Violence Everywhere, which have chapters in several states. We can join other national organizations, such as National Youth in Action Campaign, which sponsor national–level youth action councils, youth conventions, and youth action summits linking young people across the country to lobby and advocate for human rights, stricter gun laws, disarmament, hate crime legislation, etc.

In addition, there are national

The Importance Of Peace

I always have peace with everyone. I always tried to be happy person. I'm felt so exultant when I have done what I have to. I'm usually get mad when something bothers me. I'm like to eat when I have nothing to do. In my acrostic name is PER MEH as Peace, Exultant, Rose, Mad, Eat and happy.

Peace

I like the word peace because I'm like to be in peace. Peace means freedom from disturbance; quiet and tranquility. I like to travel around. I like to hang out with my friends. Everyone likes to have peace and freedom. Peace is to have freedom and they can do what they want. For example, some other country like to have peace with another country. I always have peace with my family or friends. Another example, sometime my friend gets a trouble with her sister and I tell her to have peace with her sister. I'm always have peace with my friends after we're get angry. To have peace is very important to everyone in the world.

Exultant I like the word exultant because it's describing of me that I'm always exultant. Exultant means triumphantly happy. The definition of exultant is shown or feel elation or jubilation, especially as the result of a success. For example, I'm always feeling happy when I get done what I have to do. I felt exultant when I'm done with my homework or the pass the test. I'm always show smile on my face even I'm not happy. I always smile to people, whoever I know when I see them. I'm always exultant to go shopping. I usually don't like to feel sad when I'm with

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World Peace and Non–violence

Ganadhipati Tulsi

Society consists of innumerable individuals having a common bond. That bond is mutuality. Plurality constitutes collectivity, but mere collectivity does not become society without the bond of mutuality. Without a common thread the beads would not make a rosary and it is of utmost importance to examine and evaluate the thread. We live as part of society and the unit of society is theindividual. Like individuals like society and vice versa. The above relationship is both ways true but relatively so. In modern times, society is conceived in terms of economic conditions and their management. It is assumed that if the latter are good the individual will be good too. Behind this assumption is the...show more content... Disarmament does offer a solution to the problem of war, but it cannot offer an adequate solution in the absence of a proper study of the factors leading to a war. And these factors are expansionism, the tendency of some countries to impose their political system and life style on others and the mentality of universal proselytization. We must address ourselves to finding the ways of removing these factors if we want to prevent wars and establish world peace.

Non–violence: The Eternal Religion

Non–violence is an eternal religion but we do not accept it as such. Though violence is a negative tendency and non–violence a positive one, for all practical purposes we have changed their places. As a matter of fact a serious misunderstanding has arisen because of the word non–violence, since it is taken to mean the negation of violence.. It has led people to believe that violence and not non–violence is an unavoidable part of life. The rigmarole of violence automatically comes to an end once non–violence is understood to be an inevitable part of life.

Problem of Non–violence

It is not difficult to prove the proposition that man has accorded full recognition to the need for and usefulness of violence. Today thousands of scientists are busy inventing destructive weapons and thousands upon thousands of soldiers are either undergoing training in the use of arms or staging war rehearsals. Thus all the three activities research, training and practice are going on in

The definition of peace means being free from disturbance. From a biblical perspective, the absence of conflict is only the beginning of peace. True peace includes personal wholeness, righteousness, political justice, and prosperity for all creation. That's the way God intended things to be when he created his garden, his paradise. "Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives." (John 14:27) The word "Islam" literally means "peace" as well as "submission." The word "Islam," therefore, helps define peace and how it is attained. The Islamic perspective is as well about peace and knowledge and true Muslims are peace–loving people. Peace is promoted as Allah (S.W.T) says in the Quran "God does not...show more content...

The word Islam means 'surrender' or 'submission,' submission to the will of Allah, the one God. Being a Muslim requires wilful submission and active obedience to God and living in accordance with His message and that can be translated into following the Qur'an and the hadith. The Qur'an and the hadith are the two texts which are the fundamental text for all Muslims as it is believed to contain the revelation of Allah, and the teachings of the 'sunnah' which is the teachings of Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w) complete and unaltered as revealed to the Prophet Muhammad. Peace is achieved through submission to Allah and this is reinforced through the principal teachings of Islam and the 5 pillars of Islam. Principal teachings in Christianity and Islam teach adherents to be kind, loving and peaceful towards each other. Key teachings such as loving each other is an important aspect as it was one of Jesus' teaching as it says in the bible "A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another." This shows that Peace is a foundational element of the Christian communities.

In Islam principal teachings tell Muslims the things they can do which are Halal and the things that are forbidden which is Haram. Peace is integrated as Allah) S.W.T) tells Muslims that "And the case of those Get more content

Conflict Resolution and Peacemaking

Conflict can arise among different people in a variety of ways and at different levels of severity. When two or more people, groups, or countries interact, their individual needs and goals may conflict. Conflict normally comes about over the pursuit of self–interests. The way that society tries to prevent conflict is by establishing laws or guidelines that regulate the self–serving behaviors of individuals and groups (Meyers, 2009). One major situation that can cause conflict is when a person feels they are being treated wrong. As defined, justice is giving out rewards in proportion to a person's contributions (Meyers, 2009). One instance of conflict that fits this situation is bullying in schools...show more content... Good parenting is one key to preventing one's child from becoming a bully. Some children that have a harder time understanding coarse work or have slight learning disabilities may use their behavior to act out and gain attention and respect in other ways that is wrong. Bullies can pick out their easiest victims quickly. A bully may be the loud troublemaking student who comes from a harsh home life or he or she may be the popular student who feels a need to remain superior among their peers and gain approval by belittling others. The only way for the bad student or the popular student to feel comfortable is by demonstrating some sense of control over others. The bully will use threats to invoke fear into his or her victim. Most of the time victims are afraid to tell on the bully. There are instances when telling on the bully does not accomplish any changes and can even make matters worse for those being victimized. The victim may begin to feel like the bully is just being rewarded after a while, and he or she may feel that their situation is hopeless

Educating for Peacemaking Strategies

Reaching some point of peace between the bully and his victims is a crucial goal for school personnel and parents. It is also important that the bully understand why their behavior is wrong so they can learn to prevent it from happening again. The place to start educating children

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Commander Lee: Oh, at last! General Tyson has had me looking everywhere for you. You are to report to him at the War Hall. Commander Lee: Wait a minute. Before I bother the General, I'm gonna make sure you're worth his time. Come on, take a swing at me. Commander Lee: Good enough. Now let's see if you've learned any tricks on the training grounds. Commander Lee: Not bad. Let's see if you know how to utilize items on the battlefield. Commander Lee: I can't believe it! You're just a rookie! Maybe General Tyson was right about you... follow me. We've kept the General waiting long enough. Commander Lee: General Tyson, here are the two soldiers you requested. General Tyson: Well done, commander. Soldiers! Why have you signed up for the...show more content...

Our special agent, Shaw, will give you further information once you arrive there. Shaw: Welcome to the Golden Light Shrine, the capital of the kingdom of the Wild Rose. I'm your contact, Shaw. I'm sworn to aid you on your mission however I can. I've taken the liberty of booking you a room in the hotel here and stocking it with some things you'll need for your journey. Shaw: There, you'll be able to unwind and go over some strategies we've cooked up. That sort of thing. I've also gone to great lengths to pay off a man to travel with us and assist in your training. Arcana: It would be wise indeed to see how we work as a team. Shaw: Now, as you know, your mission here is to win over the King. He'll be expecting you at the Wild Rose Palace. Don't go unprepared, I suspect he'll want you to demonstrate your value to his Kingdom. King Rox: So you are the ambassadors that the rebellion have sent to impress us... your general sent word that you would be coming. I will be direct with you. You will battle my champions in our circle of Stone and Blood. If you are able to overcome the challenges with which you are presented, then your rebellion may yet earn my respect... and my army. Arcana: The Outcome is assured. Magnus: You, too are a Paladin, so I have nothing to fear. You must be a righteous king and ally. We will fight. King Rox: Let me know when you think you're ready to prove yourselves. Shaw: Hey, I've been watching Get more content

Finding peace through love and overcoming fear

The quality of life does not depend on the material progress or the external development we have, but it rather depends on the inner development of the happiness and peace. Once a person has peace in their life then they can somehow control various situations such as fights, and their biggest fears in the best way possible. The person can win over the evil inside Them. Inner peace refers mostly to soul, body and mind. When people experience inner peace they know that it is not dependant on place, people, external object, a time or situation. Inner peace is interrelated with love, one cannot simply separate them and that is the reason how love and peace keeps the motivation, dedication and belief in one's self and helps to keep the frustration low. A person feels more satisfied and at peace with therself when they start to understand the value of life. When good prevails over evil within us, we cannot spread...show more content... Peace comes from and looking for the good in others and by living in the moment. Peacefulness comes from facing our fears and letting them come towards us, trusts that things will turn out all right.

As a highschool basketball player, I sometimes felt that my life wasn't as easy as the lives of most of people that were on my team. I would see my teamates familys come out and support there family member, but i would almost never see mine. I admit, it got to me sometimes. It affected my grades in school as would loose focus in class becasue i felt like i had no motivation, support or purpose. My family wanted me to leave the sport and concentrate on studies to secure my future but that was least of my problems. When I started to manage my studies and my sports on a level that I could make my parents stop worrying about my future, my uncle died. He was the only one who ever showed up for atleast one of my games. For a

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Thesis Statement

World peace is a topic chosen to prove that there is currently no possible way for us, humans, to achieve peace between all the nations without us having to deal with current problems we have now. The study of the topic has been quite hard, but fascinating as the research forehand has to lead me to discover more unknown problems that are likely to be preventing us from world peace. With evidence from credible articles, the paper determines that a solution to a war–free world without any problems is quite impossible. The evidence in the paper includes overpopulation effects, current arguments that can be possibly leading on to fatal war, and the design of thehuman brain which may be the direct cause of the violence that goes on in the world today. The evidence gathered will help assist that World Peace will not be happening in the world anytime soon.

Methodology

My topic of World Peace began to develop as I felt the need to address the idea of World Peace. In addition, I selected this topic to confirm that the idea was impossible to achieve. Through a long period of research, I began to learn about World Peace. As I was studying the topic, I was lead to many websites and articles to support my claim, a possible way to achieve World peace was nonchalant. Scholarly articles, written news stories, and credible websites assisted me in learning more about the possible conflicts that can prevent this idea from becoming true. I learned how many of the Get more content

What is peace? Although there are many word definitions of peace Merriam–Webster's dictionary defines peace as "freedom from disquieting or oppressive thoughts or emotions." Often times the best way to begin exploring what something is, is to begin be stating what it is not. Therefore, I shall briefly expound upon peace by examples of what isn't peace. Many times in life we find our mental state of being to be tumultuous. Everyone has a myriad of experiences and dispositions that make life hectic. Life is very unpredictable and the circumstances in which one is placed in in life are all the more out of any man's control. For example, a college student could state this his life is full of studying for classes late at night and waking up early in the morning to attend lectures, a salesman could say that his life is full of rushing to financial meetings and stress from worrying about meeting a sales quota, even a child could find himself lacking peace in his life because he may be perturbed by not being permitted to do something his parent deems unfit at the moment. All of these are examples of the antithesis of peace. However, the question still remains: What exactly is peace? Many philosophers have tried to answer this question throughout history and even scientist have hypothesized what peace is by analyzing the brain activity of an individual who are "at peace." In this essay, I shall define what peace is by the definitions set by a few notable philosophers, scientists, and Get more content

Peace Corps Experience

An experience of a lifetime, this can be defined differently depending on the individual. For me an experience of a lifetime is filled with breathtaking moments, challenges, laughter, tears, and joy. I believe that the Peace Corps is an experience of a lifetime. When I first learned about the Peace Corps and all that it requires I thought it was not for me. I attended an information session during my freshman year of college and walked away intimidated. The speaker shared her experiences of living in a foreign country and upstarting businesses and I could not imagine myself doing this. It was not until my junior year of college that I learned that, in fact, I did have the strength, independence, and self–motivation that is required for the volunteer position. Deciding to jump on a plane and spend a semester in Cusco, Peru my junior year of college exposed me to experiences that I had only dreamed of. This was a time of many firsts including first time out of North America, first time flying alone, first time communicating in a second language, and first time going to...show more content... I do not know what all of those challenges will be, but I have faced difficulties before and I look forward to new challenges that I can grow and learn from. In Peru, I learned that culture shock was real but I was able to embrace the culture through developing relationships with my host family, classmates, and community members; actively learning the Spanish language, and self–motivation to be a part of the community outside of the college I was attending. By doing all of that, I made the most out of my study abroad experience and was able to grow as a person. While I learned a lot in Peru, I am not done learning. Our world is filled with so many people and cultures, all that have something to share and teach and I hope to be exposed at least to a portion of Get more content

Due to the nature of humankind, the imbalance in wealth and power, and diversity in culture and religion global peace is not a genuine possibility. First, I will define human nature from a biblical prospective. I will then examine the state of nature in the context of Glaucon and Thomas Hobbes. Finally, I will draw on the literature of Immanuel Kant, and Jean Baudrillard. For the greater good within us, we would all like to live in a world without war, a world where competition is replaced by co–operation and individual freedom. However, this will never be; it was from the beginning of creation, that the internal violence or conflict within humankind was manifested. Genesis 4:8, stated that, "Cain killed his brother Abel...show more content...

In the article titled, "The spirit of Terrorism", by Jean Baudrillard, 2001, He captures the notion that "evil is everywhere and is an incomprehensible object of desire" (pp.1). He further went on to explain that war is horrific and demeaning to humanity but it has its contribution. Furthermore, war ended, European supremacy and the colonial era, Nazism and Communism. I support this argument, there is evil all around us, lurking in wait. Many would argue that with war comes great suffering and pain, lost of lives, years of civilization has been wiped out with just a bomb and individuals who survive war are often emotionally, physically, and psychological damage. For example, when the U.S. dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. To rebuild a country to its original state after a war takes years but there is just cause for war. Hence, in the context of war done to achieve what is deemed as the greater good, we can draw on the example of eliminating Nazism, European reined and the fall of Sadam Hussian. Indeed, many innocent people lost their lives but the consequences of war are bloodshed and suffering. Glaucon myth, on the Ring of Gyges revealed that all people are essentially egoistic and a good person is easily corrupted if the opportunity presents itself. Even though this is a myth, I do believe it has a potential to be true. Take the military, marine, and the navy for example, both men and woman, have

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If you think about war and then think about peace is war really all that bad? Without wars there would basically be no human life because no one would have anything really. Wars are defiantly not all good but they are also not all bad if there are not a bunch of them. A successful war in transition to peace was the Guatemalan war of 1960–1996 because they are still living in a bit peaceful country today but are making major progress. An example of an unsuccessful war in transition to peace is the 1991 Somalia Civil War which is still ongoing today. Corruption is on of the main things this essay will be about since corruption is on of the leading causes of most wars in the world. The Guatemalan civil war was one of the longest and...show more content...

Before long, the Rebel Armed Forces (FAR) were formed and they began assassinating United States military advisors and ambassadors. Then in the 1970's insurgent organizations began forming and fought against the military that was in charge. When Rios Montt took over as the new president of Guatemala; his main concern was defeating the guerrilla groups with his military army. The government started forming civilian defense patrols called PACs. Participation was mostly voluntary, but most Guatemalans had no choice, they either had to join the PACs or the guerrillas. Rios Montt's army and PACs recaptured all of the guerrilla's land and their activities declined. Even though, Rios Montt won this victory he won it at the cost civilians' lives. After the violence of Montt, General Oscar Humberto Mejia Victores stepped in as President. In 1984 Mejia agreed to give back democracy to Guatemala and they elected a new official. He took office in January 1986: Vinicio Cerezo, a civilian politician. Even with a new President it took another ten years of war to make peace. In the first two years of Cerezo's presidency there was a decline in violence and the military only struggled with armed insurgents. There was also a more stable economy which was excellent for the Guatemalans. In the last two years, there was a failing economy, illness, and the escalation of violence. The government did not know how to deal with the country's declining heath, education, and economy or the rise in

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Religion and Peace

Religion and Peace

1) 2) 3) The understanding of peace in religious traditions Peace expressed through the sacred texts– principle teachings on peace Contributions to peace (Individual and World)

Islam and Christianity

The understanding of peace Christianity Concept of peace The New Testament understanding of the word 'peace' is living in an idyllic condition and communicating regularly with God, as epitomized by the Garden of Eden. Perfect peace was lost when Adam and Eve sinned (Genesis 3) but the coming of Christ restored the potential for peace. Therefore belief in Jesus enables humans inner peace in their lives and the looking forward to the day when Jesus will reign supreme on Earth. As Jesus states in John 16:33 peace is found...show more content... Peace is primarily discussed however, through the New Testament. The New Testament deals with the life of Jesus and is deeply concerned with peace. It deals with peace between God and people, peace between people, inner peace, and outward peace.

Peace between God and people. The "good news" of the New Testament is that God was able to make peace with the people who had been disobedient, through the death of Christ. Colossians 1:19–20 19For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, 20and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross. John 3:16–17 16"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. 17For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. Peace between people. Jesus taught people to be peacemakers Matthew 5:9 9Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God. Matthew 5:23 23"Therefore, if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother; then come and offer your gift. Jesus taught people to not take revenge for wrongs. Matthew 5:38 38"You have

"War and fighting is politics, not religion" {person who said it}

War and conflict is very much prevalent in society today. Whilst many believe the cause to be religion, this is far from the truth. Mere, ignorance of the truth about core beliefs and lack of knowledge of religion is the true cause of war in our world, furthermore politics. Judaism, a religion very much centred on peace is one of the many religions stereotyped and judged in today's society based on the violence fed through the media. By examining the core beliefs, sacred texts, rituals and exploring the dimensions and socio historic contexts of the religion it is evident that Judaism at the core is a peaceful and tolerant religion, which promotes inter–faith understanding through...show more content... Judaism is undoubtedly a peaceful religion for the reasons that is has no concept of hell, no beliefs in the punishment of another as God is to judge, is accepting of other religions and above all their God is an eternal, compassionate, gracious, merciful and truthful God. Whilst fundamental law in Jewish ethics is simply"what is hateful to you, do not do to others", Jews incorporate this law in their life by doing good, such as paying dowries for poor brides, assisting in the organization of funerals, visiting the sick, and caring for others as if they were one of your own. As the Jewish prophet Nachmanides said "We should pray that our fellow men should receive all those blessings we hope to receive ourselves, and that we should not allow ourselves to envy another". Whilst the book of Mishnah emphasizes that all human beings are ultimately of equal worth, reiterating the notion that Judaism is indeed a peaceful religion. Complimentary to this, the book of Leviticus states, "You shall neither take revenge from nor bear a grudge against the members of your people; you shall love your neighbor as yourself. I am the Lord". Signifying the love and respect each individual is expected to have for one another. Overall the fundamentals teachings of the Torah encourage its participants to respect every human being, not to gossip (lashon hora),

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