Both violence and peacefulness are embedded in the world's religions. For example, even strongly pacifist Buddhism was connected to the warrior cult of the Japanese ___.

Peace studies is an interdisciplinary academic field that draws on political science, sociology, history, anthropology, theology, psychology, philosophy, and other fields to:

understand the causes of armed conflict;
develop ways to prevent and resolve war, genocide, terrorism, gross violations of human rights; and
build peaceful and just systems and societies.