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AiKiDô: The Trinity of Conflict Transformation

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In the following remarks, I take the view that the syllables ai, ki and represent three fundamental principles of any kind of conflict transformation.

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Wagner, W. (2015). AiKiDô: The Trinity of Conflict Transformation. In: Wagner, W. (eds) AiKiDô. Elicitiva – Friedensforschung und Humanistische Psychologie. Springer, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-10166-4_2

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