Understanding the collective processes through which the enemy is constructed will aid us in comprehending the social-cultural preconditions of collective violence, ie, the behavioural mechanisms upon which the conscious and calculated violation of human life depens, either in the form of the execution of an individual on the slaughter of millions. Although the explosion of collective violence may appear at times to be the externalisation of deep, irrational and hence imcomprehensible impulses, in most cases it is actually the outcome of a long process carried out over time and often accurately prepared