Philosopher Michel Serres bequeathed his philosophical “testament” to us in his lifelong work as a thinker, Re-read the linked
Here are his words:

Violence is radical evil.

Generated in and through human relations, assassinations of people or world conflicts; produced by diseases, parasites or microbes, old age and pain, by water, earth, air or fire, floods, earthquakes, tornadoes, fires …, violence, dark side of energy, universally dominates us.

Violence is [therefore] itself first of all an energy: the energy of waves and flames, that of animals and plants, that of men and women; finally, for creators it is enthusiasm and suffering. Energy plus guidance. One driving force, the other rudder.

Sciences, social organizations, personal conducts, religious rites, our cultural ways in general were born, I believe, from the treatment of violence, from the terror it engendered, from the means we took to appease it, soften it, get around …, master it. Hold firmly, steer the rudder, direct its power, thus becoming harmful or useful depending on the angle of the rudder. How? ‘Or’ What ? Here you are.

All violence involves energy. Neutral, it sometimes heads for murder or a tornado, but we can try to steer it in a less dangerous direction. Girard’s very scheme clearly proves this, since the collective violence, dispersed, focused on it, is concentrated on one head: the emissary victim. His energy is therefore directed in another direction. Our efforts, our achievements of all kinds stem from the tactics and strategies specific to this diversion, to this possible inclination. Because its energy CAN change direction and point of application. To handle, if possible, this possible, is, if I dare say it, the engine of our history; maybe even from our world.

Questions: where does the energy go, where did it go, where will it go tomorrow? To what extent can we divert it when it risks turning to violence? At what detectable moment does energy drift in this malignant direction? No doubt it must be taken at its root, at its origin, at its first and smallest manifestation, before it overflows us, when our weakness can still handle it. Find that clinamen point!

How to transform, in itself, hatred into creative energy, aggressiveness into benevolence, (…) perpetual wars into lasting peace, transmute religious conflicts into mystical ecstasies …? How to divert it towards other goals, while keeping its energy intact, for action, cognition, social organization and ecstasy, or, as Charles Péguy says, going from the political to the mystical?

Let us follow these difficult paths of the transmutations of energy, going from violence, dark energy, to peace, creative force. [Let’s go] from the language of fire (war and hatred) to the miracle of universal understanding, [and let us seek] to say how we pass from fire, that is to say energy, to various cultural ways …

The scapegoat (catharos):
Social violence explodes in a moment of crisis and is resolved by the lynching of a scapegoat. However, this murder displaces the problem because, after peace, violence, still latent, will explode again, at the next critical opportunity, as if it were circulating in eternal return, according to the immanent horizontal plane where the groups are forged. This pattern does not cease reproducing itself, like systole and diastole; it propagates like a wave: distributive, malignant violence is localized; localized, it redistributes to locate itself again. Like a roaring lion seeking whom to devour, it circulates in circuit, that is to say in a circle, in eternal return. Will we ever deliver it? Here is the long-term struggle that must be resumed every day, as much in the intimacy of one’s soul as in and through social relationships. (this quotes are too long, but we will choose what most speaking)