Larisa Kasumagic Talks about the Word Reconciliation
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 how she makes
meaning of the word reconciliation.
Transcript:
"So many people don't really trust the word,
especially also that there was something in the word
‘reconciliation'--which is in our language pomirenje--, which
means that I think that many people experience it as something that is
imposed on them so they don't want to reconcile. Maybe they want to
hear, they want others to hear them. But when you say ‘to reconcile',
‘reconciliation' is in itself, I think it doesn't allow that space for
the people to express their feelings and to truly connect to what it
meant to live during the war, what it meant to really experience what
many people had experienced."
Video length:
00 min 42 sec
Date filmed:
Jun 15 2004 
