In the course of the interdisciplinary research project Youth in the Balkans and their Cultures of Communication, Non-Communication, and their Notions of Reconciliation we conducted in-depth interviews with young people from different parts of South East Europe and analyzed the historical, socio-economic, religious, and international contexts they live and lived in, as well as different attitudes towards the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s and their aftermath. Closely cooperating with the Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) we furthermore investigated regional youth encounters as a setting for Dealing with the Past and an arena for reconciliation.
The project was supported by "Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH" on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Central research results are presented in the following publication, which you can also access online: Regional Youth Cooperation Office (RYCO) (Ed.): A Better Region Starts with YOUth, Tirana (Albania) 2020, www.rycowb.org.