In thinking about peace, we have to realize that everything is interconnected. The Buddhist teacher Roshi Robert Aitkin explained this interconnection as everything containing everything else. This sense of interconnection is called the Net of ___.

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.