• Pacifism preaches opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes.
• It covers a spectrum of views ranging from a preference for diplomacy in resolving international disputes to absolute opposition to the use of violence, or even force, in any circumstance. Pacifism may be based on principle or pragmatism.
• Principled pacifism springs from the belief that war, deliberate lethal force, violence or any form of coercion is morally wrong. Pragmatic pacifism does not adhere to such an absolute principle but holds that there are better ways of resolving a dispute than war, or considers the benefits of a war to be outweighed by the costs.
• 'Dove' or 'dovish' are informal terms used to describe people who seek to avoid war. The terms allude to the placid nature of the dove. Some people termed dovish would not view their position as pacifist, for they would consider war to be justifiable in some circumstances. The opposite of a dove is a 'hawk' or a warmonger.
• Some pacifists, while opposing war, are not opposed to all use of coercion, physical force against people or destruction of property. Anti-militarists, for example, are specifically opposed to the modern nation-states' military institutions rather than to 'violence' in general. Other pacifists follow principles of non-violence, believing that only non-violent action is acceptable

"

Kuchipudi, a pre-eminent Indian classical dance form counted among ten leading classical dance forms of India, is a dance-drama performance art that originated in a village of Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh, India. Similar to all leading Indian classical dance forms, Kuchipudi too evolved as a religious art rooting back to the age-old Hindu Sanskrit text 'Natya Shastra' and connects traditionally with temples, spiritual faiths and travelling bards. This ancient dance form finds place in the 10th century copper inscriptions and in 15th century texts like 'Machupalli Kaifat'. Traditionally it is regarded that the sanyassin of Advaita Vedanta sect, Tirtha Narayana Yati, and his disciple Siddhendra Yogi initiated, methodized and arranged the present day version of the dance form in 17th century. Usually performance repertoire of Kuchipudi that is broadly oriented on Lord Krishna and the tradition of Vaishnavism include an invocation, dharavu - short dance, nritta - pure dance and nritya - expressive dance respectively.

The State of the World's Children is an annual report published by the United Nations Children's Emergency Fund. It is the flagship publication of the organization.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a global campaign that urges countries to adopt its new online tool known as 'AWaRe'. The tool is aimed at guiding policy-makers and health workers to use antibiotics safely and more effectively. It's another objective is to limit drugs that are at risk of resistance. The tool 'AWaRe' classifies antibiotics into three groups (a) Access- antibiotics used to treat the most common and serious infections (b) Watch- antibiotics available at all times in the healthcare system and (c)Reserve- antibiotics to be used sparingly or preserved and used only as a last resort.

Both the statements are correct.

Bars, Barriers and Spits are depositional landforms.

A ridge of sand and shingle formed in the sea in the off-shore zone (from the position of low tide waterline to seaward) lying approximately parallel to the coast is called an off-shore bar. An off-shore bar which is exposed due to further addition of sand is termed a barrier bar.

The off-shore bars and barriers commonly form across the mouth of a river or at the entrance of a bay. Sometimes such barrier bars get keyed up to one end of the bay when they are called spits.