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Islam is often described as a religion that emphasizes the use of violence in its da'wah method. The stereotype is formed by a number of literature and media that depicted Islam as a religion of violence. This paper aims to analyze the causes of stereotype against Islam, and provides an overview of the concept of peace in Islamic perspective, and seek the relevance of the concept of peace in Islam to the study of conflict and peace in international relations. Through some literature research, the author finds that the stereotype is caused by the gap in the discourse on war and peace in Islam, thus the discourse related to the peace in Islam needs to be buzzed. Unlike the two mainstreams in International Relation Studies (Realism and Idealism), al-Quran, as the primary source of Islamic teaching, describes that a human is basically both keen to cooperate and prone to conflict, and favoring to managing the conflict through peaceful settlement. Three terms-as-silmu, as-shulhu, and al-amanu are used to conceptualize the three levels of peace in the Quranic perspective.

Kurdistan tribe is the name of the ethnic unity occupying some countries in Middle East region, mainly Iraq, Iran, and Turkey. The existence of the Kurdistan tribe, with different ethnic from the majority, is always viewed as the region problem and treated discriminatively. Thus, the Kurdistan community always makes movement, even always does rebellion, for the sake of fighting their political right. This writing explains the existence and the form of the political movements of the Kurdistan, in the three main countries above, in fighting their political right, either autonomy or independence demand, even though the dreams of the Kurdistan movement is difficult to be brought into reality.

Conflict of Syi’i-Sunni is the conflict that has long history. The seed of this conflict began since the deathof Prophet Muhamad SAW. In the beginning, this conflict is the political conflict, it related about whowould be the successor of Muhammad’s leadership after his death. However, this conflict was broughtto the religious (aqidah) conflict among the followers of Ali and the followers od Abu Bakar and theother Friends. This conflict has big impact in colouring the history of the Islamic world civilizationwhich is so difficult to be compromised, to the present. Even this conflict participates in colouring thepolitical conflict in the Middle East, mainly the Arab World, since the Arab Spring exploded in the earlyof 2011 last. The Arab Spring doesn’t just make popular the word of democracy in the political discourseof the Middle East, but also the sentiment of Syi’i-Sunni makes hot the political atmosfer. This writingtries to read the history and the development of Syi’i-Sunni conflict in the Middle East contemporerly.

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