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Journal of Perpetrator Research
Harming Others: The Dynamics of Everyday Aggression and GenocidePerpetrators and Perpetration of Mass Violence
Perpetrators and Perpetration of Mass ViolenceWorld War II entailed an unprecedented amount of violence and suffering, only part of which was caused by the actual fighting. Against the background of a looming unconditional, total German defeat at the end of the war, German occupation in many cases degenerated into brutal physical violence against civilians. Immediately after the end of the war, societies in nearly all formerly occupied countries were drowning in a wave of more or less spontaneous violence. People in the liberated countries directed their wrath not only against former Nazis and against ethnic Germans in general, but also attacked domestic " collaborators " and national " traitors. " The complex phenomenon of Endphasegewalt involved transitional violence, violent rituals, extermination campaigns, national cleansing, rage, retribution, rape and other forms of opportunism. Endphasegewalt infused the everyday experience of millions of Europeans at the time. In the course of the last few decades, historians and other researchers have published many studies concentrating on different cases of violence during the period. Mostly, they sought explanations for political decision making or proposed models and descriptions of the social practices connected with violent behavior. These macrosocial perspectives left out the very important performative aspect of violence: people were putting their conceptions of the ideal postwar society into practice through violence. Was violence a meaningful act meant to empower new collective identities, or was it only the coincidental product of accumulated frustration and rage? To answer these questions, the conference will adopt a micro-and local-historical perspective. It will compare events in selected regions of several occupied countries that were affected by German occupation policies.
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It is possible that war in modern societies is largely driven by emotions, but in a way that is almost completely hidden. Modernity individualizes the self and tends to ignore emotions. As a result, conflict can be caused by sequences in which the total hiding of humiliation leads to vengeance. This essay outlines a theory of the social-emotional world implied in the work of C. H. Cooley and others. Cooley’s concept of the “looking-glass self” can be used as antidote to the assumptions of modernity: the basic self is social and emotional: selves are based on “living in the mind” of others, with a result of feeling either pride of shame. Cooley discusses shame at some length, unlike most approaches, which tend to hide it. This essay proposes that the complete hiding of shame can lead to feedback loops (spirals) with no natural limit: shame about shame and anger is only the first step. Emotion backlogs can feed back when emotional experiences are completely hidden: avoiding all pain c...
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Much has been said and written by now about the critical issues of transitional justice in the post-Yugoslav situation, and about the problematic (non)dealing with the recent war and criminal past in Serbia and elsewhere. Yet the failure to deal with the past, especially its crimes, is only one mark of the persistence of a deeper problem that helped to create the circumstances in which collective crimes were made possible—circumstances that still persist, even though the war is over. As Arendt remarked when analyzing the elements of totalitarian domination, these phenomena can, in the form of several temptations, survive a system that has been defeated, persist further and crystallize in one form or another. What are these circumstances? I have argued elsewhere that the Yugoslav war and massive crimes, especially in the case of Srebrenica, cannot be understood by a single-cause explanation, such as calling nationalism the origin of all subsequent evil. In addition to many precipitating human actions and omissions, a specific climate and mentality had to be created in order to prepare people to participate in, commit to, or tolerate the crimes that occurred. This extended process of preparation can be described as the creation of what I call the “organized innocence syndrome.” Keywords: Guilt and innocence, responsibility, citizenship, nation-states, erased, Yugoslavia, Arendt
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