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35th International Islamic Unity Conference

Defining just peace and just war and examining the principles and characteristics of each

Author(s):
Zohre Ameri
Abstract:

Peace is one of the concepts that was one of the first human ideas in his social life and has been considered and confirmed by religions in the course of history. Concepts and truths such as peace, justice, rationality, freedom, etc., which are intertwined with human nature and are one of the innate instincts and demands of human beings, have found another nature in the shadow of arrogant greed, in the form of these words, and separately. They are presented and imitated, and concepts such as terror, war, immigrants, refugees, etc., which are inherently alien to human nature, replace the divine human values.
In this article, by examining the lexical roots and the concepts of peace and war, their idiomatic definitions are discussed and then the Islamic view on this concept is analyzed and it is proved that jihad has many points in common with the tradition of just war. Later theorists have used the terms "just war pacifism" or "conditional pacifism" to describe the view that in the context of modern warfare, the theory of just war is morally incorrect. At present, armed conflicts do not meet the criteria set by Islam for the moral justification of just war, so this can be seen as a reason for the conditional pacifism of just Islamic war.

Keywords:
Peace, war, justice, international, Islamic worldview