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YOUTH CHOOSING
PEACE
In June of 2003 CMCE began working with a second
group of Bosnia teens from the town of Lukavica,
just outside Sarajevo. While the teens in the first
group are mainly of Muslim, Catholic and mixed religious
heritages, the teens from Lukavica are all Serb
Orthodox Christian and indeed their town is inside
Republika Srpska, the quasi-independent and "ethnically
clean" Bosnian Serb mini-state created at the
end of the war. Although Sarajevo and Lukavica are
only fifteen minutes apart by car barriers of resentment,
fear, anger and distrust keep the people of the
two places effectively segregated. CMCE's new project,
Youth Choosing Peace, was initiated after two successful
attempts to bring teens from the two groups together.
In the coming year and a half 35 teens from Sarajevo
and Lukavica will collaborate on a large, mixed-media
art piece to commemorate the tenth anniversary of
end of the war in Bosnia in November 2005. They
will present the new work in public to share their
hopes for the future of their country.
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