The Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s drove a marine mammal to extinction when an offshore oil facility was bombed. This manatee-like animal is the ___.

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.