Back to the Future: How to Make Peace with the Past in Order to Create a Better Tomorrow
Back to the Future: How to Make Peace with the Past in Order to Create a Better Tomorrow

Author(s): Milica Božić Marojević
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Politics, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Inter-Ethnic Relations
Published by: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju
Keywords: reconciliation processes; dissonant heritage; Serbian-Albanian relations; culture of memory; education reform; youth engagement; cultural dialogue
Summary/Abstract: This study brings together three research directions: one concerns the role of heritage and education in the reconciliation process; the second includes the perspectives of art history students on the unwanted legacy of the past; and the third focuses on the lessons learned by investigating the first two phenomena. This paper focuses on the third segment. The main research question is: how can Serbs and Albanians, after everything that happened in recent decades in Kosovo, live together again? What can young people do and what is the role of education in all that? The key to this is changing the culture of hostility in the direction of a culture of a shared future. Those who can bring this to life most effectively are young people.

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