INVITING VIOLENCE AND FRAGILE MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES
INVITING VIOLENCE AND FRAGILE MANAGEMENT OPPORTUNITIES

Author(s): Alpar Lošonc
Subject(s): History, Special Historiographies:, Wars in Jugoslavia
Published by: BCBP Beogradski centar za bezbednosnu politiku
Keywords: Yugoslavia; violence
Summary/Abstract: Despite the impression that violence is comprehensively treated in various disciplines, there is a conviction that the analysis of violence is always insufficient in respect to its complexity. The present social-theoretical efforts very much take violence into consideration as an, almost, unavoidable horizon. However, here we are also dealing with something else because, if we attempt to speak out about violence, if we attempt to identify the sources generating violence (from families to other levels), the interrelations and the complexity of relations involved make this analytical objective extremely difficult. As evidence of this, there is a visible fact that the constellation that emerged after the collapse of ex-Yugoslavia generates a discussion of violence. Namely, despite the fact that the example of ex-Yugoslavia cannot be dramatized as a paradigm for global ethnic violence, exercising enormous and massive violence with regard to disintegrating the fabric of a state, it represents a continuing invitation for contemplation. At the same time, we must raise the question whether the disintegration, “the caving-in” of ex-Yugoslavia, has contributed anything new analytically for the contemplation of violence or whether it is just a reiteration of the “thing itself” in a new context – after the collapse of the socialist project. It is a question whether we can only speak of contextual narrations of the “collapse stained in blood” which are merely added to the theoretically established features of violence.

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