In 2001, Holocaust survivors came to speak; it was quite touching. One man, whose eyes filled with tears as he spoke, said that happiness, more than anything else, makes him cry. And he is happy today. Hearing these stories made the children want even more to memorialize the victims. They decided they needed a/an ___ for their museum.

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.