In the U.S., nonviolent action for civil rights was frequently met with violence. Fifty years ago (on June 12, 1963), civil rights leader Medgar Evers was killed. Five years later, ___ was killed in Memphis, Tennessee; he was there in support of the sanitation workers.

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.