Apart from those brief traumas, nothing happens suddenly.

That is the case with reform programmes that are promulgated from the top and viewed at the bottom with deep suspicion and or as a potential source of traumas and tension.

As one of the consequences of war, there are high rates registered of amputations, lesions of the spinal cord and bone marrow, traumatic injuries of brain, lesions of peripheral nerves and multiple traumas.

These traumas required responses very different from previous technological changes. Government regulation was incapable of dealing with the issues involved, although it was certainly helpful to devise ways of making destructive hackers criminally responsible.

In fact, a recent study this almost floors me a recent study showing how major life traumas affect people suggests that if it happened over three months ago, with only a few exceptions, it has no impact whatsoever on your happiness.

Meanwhile, with the exception of Slovenia, the democratic transformation in the post Yugoslav region remains uneasy. Wars, ethnic cleansing, embargoes, and sanctions created not only psychological traumas, but also black markets, smuggling, large scale corruption, and de facto rule by mafias.

Wars, ethnic cleansing, embargoes, and sanctions created not only psychological traumas, but also black markets, smuggling, large scale corruption, and de facto rule by mafias. The bombing of Serbia by NATO in 1999 heavily damaged its economy, with serious consequences for neighboring countries.

In particular, it notes that as a consequence of the conflict more than 4 million people were internally displaced many children were separated from their parents schools, health services and the infrastructure of many communities were destroyed or severely damaged and children suffered serious physical, psychological and other traumas.

Women and children suffer the most in times of conflict. Add to this centuries old patriarchal traditions, 15 year old post war traumas, a 20 year economic crisis, and current Russian aggression, and you may begin to grasp what women in South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Georgia are enduring these days.