The Freedom Riders boarded buses in Washington D.C. with no security. They had trained to take violence, but weren't expecting it. The Freedom Riders made it to ___ without problems. Martin Luther King, Jr. met them, but declined to board the bus.

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.