550:: I got involved with it and then slipped into depression for the first time in my life, also had suicidal thoughts". Third graduate student: "Well, he said he observed that I had a kind of blockage in my root chakra, and that's the seat of sexuality, and then, sitting right next to me, he started talking about my sexuality. It was It's a completely invasive, awkward situation." (
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Wolfgang Dietrich "sat right next to me and (began) to tell me something about my sexuality, it was a completely offensive, uncomfortable situation." As a result, occurred "depression" and "suicidal thoughts," that the graduate student had not known before.
263:(2021) he developed this approach further and argues now that peace should neither be considered an abstract essence, expressed in a singular noun as all modern European languages do, nor the relational plural that he advocated until then, but as interacting dynamics of the web of existence, expressed better in verbs – as numerous extra-European languages do.
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that claims to be (...) perhaps the best, but it is for sure the hardest course on the thematic on the work for peace. Each year this course receives 91 thousand Euros from the State of Tirol. Former graduates are now raising serious allegations against the head of the course, who retired in
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has in its power reports from several graduates and a French guest professor who speaks of extreme dependency and psychological consequences; the former course director also crossed sexual boundaries during esoteric exercises." The three graduates of the course, that have been interviewed in the
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International Conflict Transformation", the central university administration said, shortly after the retirement of its original chair in 2021, and in the context of some public critiques, that it better should be changed to get an institutional academic form
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of the many peaces and thus establishes an approach that is founded on respect towards the Other. Peace is thus thought of in the sense of "many peaces" as a noun with a plural. He asserts that what peace means differs on closer inspection from culture to culture, and the connotations and
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Dietrich began his career as an academic peace worker in
Central America and Latin America, later in India, Eastern Africa, and Southeast Asia. He worked and taught also at many Universities in the US and Europe. During the last years of his career, he worked mainly in the Middle East.
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indications of structural violence. However, the university's vice-rector for human resources acknowledged during a media briefing that there were indications from third parties that
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