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

CONFLICT = ATTITUDES/ASSUMPTIONS + BEHAVIOR + CONTRADICTION
A contradiction is an incompatibility in live systems seeking
goals (consciously held values or positional interests). We
reject conflictologies that are only A-oriented (psychological or
religious analyses only), B-oriented (US conflictology, behavior
being observable "trouble", and "behaviorism" being an
epistemological, even ideological position) or C-oriented (marxist
conflictology). Conflicts can start in any corner and spread, for
instance with negative attitudes, prejudice, toward foreigners
("strangers") projected into negative behavior, discrimination,
whereupon an incompatibility may even be invented (like threats to
the state). There is a Gestalt to the triangle; and it is
synergistic.
Related to the conflict triangle is the violence triangle:
VIOLENCE=CULTURAL VIOLENCE+DIRECT VIOLENCE+STRUCTURAL VIOLENCE and
we reject any violence analysis that does not encompass all three
varieties. Thus, one culturally embedded assumption may be that
it is legitimate that negative attitudes accumulate in a conflict
and are released as violent behavior, verbal or physical./87/ Or,
if somebody stands in the way of your own goal-realization and
refuses to budge, rejects any compromise, then it is legitimate to
get him ut of the way, if necessary by force - provided you are
stronger. A peace culture would of course negate this. But a
peace culture also has to offer alternatives.
At the root of structural violence is an compatibility of
positional interests . What does that mean, concretely? There
are two basic structural arrangements, vertical and horizontal,
the pyramid and the wheel, the hierarchy and the group:
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