Religious Wars

During our discussion in class on Thursday, it seems that we bypassed the significance of religious wars and the complete lack of acknowledgement to them by the different international theories. A religious war is a war justified by religious differences. It can be the forces of one state that has an established religion against those of another state with either a quite different religion or a different sect within the same religion, but it could also be at the level below a state. It can be a faction motivated by religion attempting to spread its faith by violence either within the state or elsewhere. While the different theories that we have gone over prove why world peace has never happened, they still do not come up with concrete advice or steps to obtain peace. Even though the theories don’t touch upon religious wars and conflicts, I think it is highly unlikely that we will ever be able to achieve world peace. Even if states somehow find a way to all co-exist happily within their governmental realms, this does not take into account the severe differences of religion from state to state and region to region that would make it impossible for them to agree on every aspect of international relations.