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

Table 9.1. The praxis triad: DIAGNOSIS + PROGNOSIS + THERAPY.
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Conflict Behavior Contradiction Attitudes/
triangle Assumptions
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Problem = Direct Structural Cultural
Violence violence violence violence
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Diagnosis History of Vertical: Cosmology:
(of the roots direct repression/ CMT syndrome
of violence) violence; exploitation DMA syndrome
History of penetration universalism
structural segmentation cum
violence; fragmentation singularism;
History of exclusion utopianism
cultural Horizontal: cum
violence; all - too much, final states
defining the - too little
present interaction
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Prognosis Escalation, Continuation Continuation
(of how what continuation if no if no
happens to till consciousness consciousness
the violence) prognoses formation and formation and
coincide; efforts to efforts to
or no energy build peace build peace
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Self-Therapy Nonviolence Creativity Empathy
(what you can - negative, Consciousness Consciousness
do to reduce marches, ofverticality of individual
violence) strikes, Organization collective
fasting etc.; Confrontation subconscious;
- positive, Struggle trace origins
construction Decoupling = trace effects
human contact self-reliance modify codes
dialogue, Recoupling, build codes
joint efforts but carefully
Other-Therapy Nonviolence Creativity Empathy
(others may - negative, - sowing seeds, - positive,
have to do as hostages one party at trying to
intervention) - positive, the time identify the
facilitators - watering legitimate
as links of the seeds goals of all
communication - being a parties;
like above facilitator - negative,
willing to for ideas trying to
incur risks participation eliminate
in dialogue illegitimate,
with explicit unnecessary
peace goals goals, limit
mediation the conflict
arbitration surface
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Table 9.1 is meant as an overview of much of peace studies;
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