AFTER VIOLENCE: 3R, RECONSTRUCTION, RECONCILIATION ...

10. 28 June 1914, the 525th anniversary of the Serbian trauma in
Kosovo Polje 28 June 1389 (cultural violence to symbolize power on
that day) in a Bosnia and Herzegovina annexed by the Habsburg
regime in 1908 (direct, then structural violence).
11. A marvelous formula for justification is, of course, "the
struggle for survival" combined with "survival of the fittest".
Life is seen as a struggle, the word "violence" is around the
corner and is normalized. If you survive that struggle then you
are by definition the "fittest", meaning entitled to your victory.
Sad for those who lost, by they were, by definition, not the
fittest. Their role was to serve as stepping stones.
12. For an analysis of this, see PBPM, "The Externalities", Part
III, Chapter 3, pp. 154-176.
13. Thus, economic growth may lead to anomie and atomie, the
dissolution of compelling norms and of social fabric, which would
be an adequate definition of a growth-torn society. At the same
time, developed in the text, these are also important aspects of
war-torn societies.
14. See Johan Galtung, Environment, Development and Military
Activity, Oslo: Universitetsforlaget, 1982.
15. "The war is only sweet to those who never experienced one".
16. "War is a law of nature", meaning there is noting we can do
about it, they come and go, life is like that.
17. The cry of the masses celebrating the call by Pope Urbain II
27 November 1095 for the (First) Crusade.
18. The classical marxist legitimation of revolutions to climb up
the Stufengang, primitive communism-slavery-feudalism-capitalism-
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