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SARAJEVO, May 21 (FENA) - Young activists from Bosnia and Herzegovina and young journalists from the Republic of Serbia gathered today in Sarajevo for the project 'Digital Natives Combating Dangerous Narratives in the Western Balkans' to strengthen cooperation and learn more about the past and the war that was fought from 1992 to 1995.
The project is organized by the Forgotten Children of War Association (ZDR) in cooperation with the Independent Association of Journalists of Vojvodina with the support of the Regional Office for Youth Cooperation (RYCO) and the European Union.
The program coordinator of the "Association of Forgotten Children of War", Muhamed Tucaković, said that the goal of the project is to expand cooperation between young people from Serbia and BiH, to connect journalists and activists and give them the opportunity to see, visit and learn what they could not through formal education.
"Educational systems in the countries of the region, and in BiH ignore war topics and thus do not give young people the opportunity to learn and be objectively informed. A better understanding of history also contributes to better coexistence. That is why it is important for young people to start talking about war topics, in order to lay the foundations for better and more open communication in the future," said Tucaković.
Young people will have the opportunity to attend the lectures of BiH director Dina Mustafić, journalist Arijana Saračević-Helać, president of the Association Ajna Jusić, as well as historian Nikolas Moll.
They will also have the opportunity for museum visits during their stay until May 23: the War Childhood Museum, the History Museum of BiH, as well as important historical sites of the siege of Sarajevo.
Project coordinator Divna Prusac says that they started the cooperation because it is necessary and because contacts between young people are being lost.
"The focus of the project is for young people to create multimedia content, and in a team of two people from BiH and Serbia, they will work on dealing with the past, reconciliation in the region, and cooperation of young people. All this will be based on established facts that will help them shape those contents and distribute them credibly to the audience," Prusac pointed out.
Young people from BiH and Serbia want to enrich the region with cooperation, because, she concluded, our education needs supplementation, and the only way to fix the region and take it to a brighter future and overcome the post-conflict period is cooperation, conversation and socializing.
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