Abstract

World peace as an ideal situation associated with freedom and prosperity refers to a situation in which all the people of the world work together to avoid war and violence. This article is aimed at analyzing the formation and activation of the United Nations as a momentum of the international community. In Iran, after the Islamic Revolution of 1979 there has been an emphasis on dignity, human values and freedom, with responsibility before God. The Iranian constitution is opposed to all cruelty, oppression, domination and submission, and heralds the provision of social and political freedoms, within the limits of law. The present article is intended to use the descriptive-analytical method in order to study the positive concept of world peace. With the help of library resources and legal documents the present paper aims to explain the sustainable initiatives to creating of world peace contained in the Iranian Constitution, based on the Quranic verses and its interpretations of Ghotb in Egypt and Imam Khomeini in Iran. Among such principles of the constitution, is human happiness in Iran, in the entire Islamic Ummah, and in the whole human community. The Constitution also proclaims independence, freedom, the rule of justice and truth for all peoples.

Highlights

  • World peace throughout history has been an ideal situation for mankind, associated with concepts such as freedom and prosperity by theologians, philosophers, jurists and politicians

  • Global peace refers to a situation in which all the people of the world work together to avoid war and violence

  • Article 33 of the United Nations Charter refers to various means of resolving disputes before they lead to violent conflict

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INTRODUCTION

World peace throughout history has been an ideal situation for mankind, associated with concepts such as freedom and prosperity by theologians, philosophers, jurists and politicians. The World Peace and the Islamic Prospective maintaining legal relations among humans, states, and the security in social welfare are included as integral parts of peace These two concepts of peace have always attracted the attention of the international community. The first concept of peace, the negative one, which means the avoidance and elimination of wars among countries is today considered excessively limited. Achieving this type of peace was the aim of the world peace movement in the 20th century. The new and most widely accepted concept of world peace considers war as a sort of conflict that is not limited to use of force This new concept includes the social relationships among the members of national and international communities (Saed, 2014). It compares Ghotb’s doctrine in Egypt with Imam Khomeini’s interpretation of world peace, and the Islamic approach to sustainable peace

WORLD PEACE AND THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED NATIONS
ISLAMIC PERSPECTIVE
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