Gandhi's salt march exposed the brutality of the British colonizers. It took 28 years, but the British finally pulled out of India. His strategies have been used successfully in the U.S. and elsewhere. As you saw in Freedom Riders, nonviolent action was used to get rid of the ___ laws.

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.