Claves para entender la violencia en el siglo XXI

Resumen

Some keys to understand violence in the XXI century.

This paper advances three stances. First, that fear is the key to the display of aggressiveness, whether defensive or offensive. Second, that violence is the behavior resulting from the aggressiveness put under the intentional control of consciousness and that the violence always occurs in a context of asymmetry of power. Third, that, when fear becomes chronic, violence tends to induce a syndrome of learned helplessness in victims, a very common syndrome in both gender-based violence as in the genocide in communities or in the psychological and economic violence perpetrated by the financial system today.

key words. Fear, aggressiveness, violence, asymmetry of power, syndrome of learned helplessness, financial system.