Countries' educational systems perpetuate the war system. For example, in teaching ___, children are led to believe that their country has always acted nobly and that we must sometimes fight in order to protect our way of life. Who did you learn was noble - Robert E. Lee, Ulysses S. Grant, or George McClellan? I bet it wasn't George McClellan.

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.