This eastern African society, the ___, used to be warlike. In the mid-1800s, the society changed from one focused on war and destruction to one based on peacefulness, prosperity, and order.

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.