In the 60 books that Elie Wiesel wrote, he was always pondering questions from the Holocaust. He asked 'What is the sense of living in a universe that tolerates unimaginable cruelty? How could the world have been ___? How can one go on believing?'

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.