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2012.
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| Summary/Abstract |
In deeply divided societies, where barbed wire and police checkpoints prohibit freedom of movement of both ideas and goal, there exists a suitable environmental for reinforcement of a culture of conflict, mistrust and suspicion as well as a flourishing of "enemy images". According to the Enemy System Theory (Volkan, 1978, 1990; Montville, 1990; Mack, 1990), humans have a deeply rooted psychological need to dichotomize and to create enemies and allies. This phenomenon occurs at the individual as well as group level, where by primitive and unconscious impulses are mobilized and often result in the former neighbors harming and killing each other simply because they belong to different national ethnic group.
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