Adolescenti i genocid – mladost i smrt
Adolescents and Genocide – Youth and Death

Author(s): Nermina Kravić
Subject(s): Psychology, Criminology, Studies in violence and power, Nationalism Studies
Published by: Transkulturna Psihosocijalna Obrazovna Fondacija (TPO Foundation)
Keywords: War; adolescence; forgiveness;
Summary/Abstract: Adolescence is the part of life which represents the bridge between childhood and adulthood and it is characterized with numerous physical and psychological changes which young person is going through. Forming of identity is one of the key goals of adolescence. But what if that stormy life period is faced with war terror and disaster, as well as post war insecurity and growing up in family where war wounds are deep and inerasable, how to make a peace between confronted drives and ambivalent feelings which young personality have, which are part of his/her surrounding too? The war, loss, death, destruction, transgenerational trauma transmission, hate, revenge, fear, opposite feelings of forgiveness, love, wish to establish relationship and contacts with others to achieve balance in themselves as well as with the surrounding where they live.

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