In the light of the study on change. This is inherent to society and it is defined as the energy generated by the existence of opposing forces and by their internal and external activation. This includes a series of characteristics such as attention, emotion, balance, rupture. The following stand out as possible tension categories: negative, destructive, positive, critical and creative. But it is also relevant to study the transforming capacity of certain social forces in rerouting negative and destructive tensions.

Considering the social impact. The importance given to analysing political violence and gender violence due to the social impact which each one generates. The same might be said of reflecting on the reasons for apathy, social wearying of political violence. In the case of gender-related violence, although great steps are being made towards eradicating it, we should still think about the social, cultural and institutional underestimation and how this is related to cultural mandates which are hard to eradicate.

In its innovating capacity. Identifying sources of creative tension is closely related to Basque society’s sustainable progress. In many cases these sources might be on the sidelines and not recognisable as such because they are expressed in codes and emerging practices.