Just War Theory Introduced By The Catholic Church

“Just war” theory was introduced by the Catholic church in the Medieval period. The just war theory was created to protect lives of innocent people and defend moral rights. The Just War theory has its own conditions for judging if it is just to go to war, and conditions for what strategies to use when fighting a just war. Just War Theory is the origin on which nations obtain to legally and morally justify going to war. A war has to be approved as a just war by a church official. A war that causes unnecessary violence and injustice, can’t be considered as a just war. A war is a just war when a person goes to war against their neighbor because the neighbor broke an oath or attacked church. It is now a just war when someone attacks their neighbor for personal benefits.
“Just peach” is an alternative to wars. “Just peach” theory suggests supporting nonviolent actions, advancing democracy, human rights, and cooperative conflict resolution. While, people argued that “just war” was more convenient for citizens in tackling most difficult situations, “Just peach” believers disagreed with that claim and said just war limited people from making alternatives to violence. “Just peace” believers seemed to be right when “Cardinal Jaime Sin, the highest-ranking Catholic official in the country, joined the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines in calling for a “nonviolent struggle for justice.” Training from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines and along with an advanced election-monitoring mission propelled by nuns and clerics, cleared the way for the mass “people power” development that anticipated Marcos from taking the 1986 presidential decisions. More than a million unarmed Filipinos, together with units of the military that denied orders to shoot at the serene protestors, challenged violence with peaceful resistance and