Pacifism facts for kids

Pacifism is when someone does not think war or violence is a good way to stop a fight or to get ahead of someone and move toward peace. Pacifism was encouraged in the first days of people as a whole. Conscientious objector also oppose of pacifism and conscience for peace.

India

Compassion (or care) for all life, human and nonhuman is central to Hinduism, Buddhism, which was founded by Siddhattha Gotama (or Buddha), and also Jainism, founded by Mahavira. Both the Buddha and Mahavira were by birth kshatriya, the varna (social order) of soldiers and officials.

Related pages

• Nonviolence
• World peace

Images for kids

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  Anti-war activist arrested in San Francisco during the March 2003 protests against the war in Iraq

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  Vereshchagin's painting The Apotheosis of War (1871) came to be admired as one of the earliest artistic expressions of pacifism

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  Penn's Treaty with the Lenape.

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  "Peace". Caricature of Henry Richard, a prominent advocate of pacifism in the mid-19th century

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  A World War I-era female peace protester

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  The soldiers of the Red Army in Russia, who on religious grounds refused to shoot at the target (evangelicals or Baptists). Between 1918 and 1929

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  Refugees from the Spanish Civil War at the War Resisters' International children's refuge in the French Pyrenees

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  A demonstrator offers a flower to military police at an anti-Vietnam War protest, 1967

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  Protest against the deployment of Pershing II missiles in Europe, Bonn, West Germany, 1981

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  The shadow of the cross symbolizes the connection between religion and war in Constantine's Sword

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  Jewish armed resistance against the Nazis during World War II

See also

In Spanish: Pacifismo para niños