Kremlin war hawks in the U.S.S.R. viewed ___'s plans for radically reducing the Soviet military, including converting missile plants to peaceful purposes as heretical. As a result, less than a year after John F. Kennedy was killed, this Soviet leader was removed from power.

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.