Larisa Kasumagic Talks about Post-War Realities for Families
Larisa Kasumagic is an educator from Bosnia
and Herzegovina who has worked with organizations offering
psycho-social support for war-traumatized children and their families.
Kasumagic attended Facing History's Global Symposium during
the Summer of 2005. In this clip, videotaped in 2004 when Kasumagic
attended a Facing History Institute, she talks about the realities of
trauma after war and mass violence.
Transcript:
"The postwar reality has changed when compared
to the war reality only in terms that we don't have the violence, the
physical violence. But I think that the violence with memory, the
violence with dreams, the violence with what people are going through
now on how to cope with their families. Many families are broken too.
Communication in families is broken as a result of the war. Parents are
not happy with what they have achieved. They are not happy because they
don't have jobs, they don't feel safe in their own world, they don't
feel safe also with what they can offer or cannot offer to their kids."
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Video length:
00 min 40 sec
Date filmed:
Jun 15 2004 
