Ashoka rejected war as state policy in favor of human benevolence.

Evidence

With his conversion Ashoka renounced war as an instrument of state policy and adopted human benevolence as the solution to the world’s problems. — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 534

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Neil MacGregor, A History of the World in 100 Objects, 534