This story was first published in Balkan Insight on June 12, 2017. by Katherine Heroux SIT Spring 2017 Villanova University Jajce, Bosnia-Herzegovina – Faruk Bubric, an 18-year old in his last year of secondary school, spends most of his time playing video games or hanging out with his friends. His time in the education system in the …
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This story was first published in Balkan Transitional Justice on July 6, 2016. by Carolyne Paletta SIT Spring 2016 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Djordje Bojovic was 19 years old and fearful the first time he visited Kosovo. Although there are four buses running between Belgrade and Pristina each day, the young Serb did not …
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by Rachel Brustein SIT Spring 2015 Goucher College BELGRADE – Sixteen years after the war between Serbia and Kosovo, and seven years since Pristina unilaterally declared independence, there are not many interactions between the former foes. An NGO network with offices throughout the Balkans is working to change this with young people. The Youth Initiative …
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