The author states that, over the past 100 years, ___ to war has been accepted as a legal right. In 1995 the United Nations Commission on Human Rights embraced this right on behalf of the international community.

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.