Youth in BiH’s Republika Srpska
Youth in BiH’s Republika Srpska

Summary/Abstract: The article is about young people in the Republika Srpska, in the North-eastern part of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), about adolescents’ understanding of life and their different attitudes invarious aspects of life. It highlights the causes of some of the negative behaviour of the young and tries to give the reader a vision of both pros and cons about living in the area. The political situation makes adolescents in the Republika Srpska tired of living at home and the best solution for most of them is to try to leave the country – leaving their homes, parents, partners and friends. The war 1992-1996 devastated nearly every family and young people live under the pressure of fear and hate. BiH’s education system is horrible, with teachers spreading ignorance instead of teaching peace. Adolescents are deeply divided, unorganized, with passive fatalistic attitudes that things will not and cannot change. But not everything is as dark as it seems because there are those who resist being part of the paralysed society.

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