4_web_IMG_8182 Aikido Without Borders (AWB) is a registered non-profit that combines the practice of aikido conflict resolution, community responsibility, and youth leadership.
Aikido is an excellent medium for bringing youth from opposing sides of a conflict to build community and forge lasting friendships. By systematically teaching young people on both sides of the conflict concrete and positive replacements for violence, hatred, and aggression we give clear and valuable non-violent alternatives in crisis and conflict. Further, by bringing these young people together to have joint trainings in aikido and conflict resolution, AWB is creating new and lasting connections 4_web_Amit-throw-epic that lead towards a more peaceful future.

Aikido is unique among martial arts in that it teaches:

Calmness and creativity in the midst of aggression.

Compassion and non-violence responses towards violence.

Resolution of conflict without harming another.