ABSTRACT
I will begin this chapter with a brief reference to a scene in Jean-Luc Godard's Notre Musique, his Dantesque film on the hell of war, the purgatory of humanity, and heavenly imaginings. 1 In the scene referred to, a taxi cruises through the war-scape of a post-siege Sarajevo, which serves to set in motion thoughts on the effects of civil war on human nature. One of the observers in the taxi, a man with a markedly hollow-eyed look, comments:
The atrocity of annihilation is irreversible. The trust in the world that ter-ror destroys is irretrievable. To see your fellow man turn on you breeds a feeling of deep-rooted horror. Violence severs the lifeline.
