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YOUTH, THE PATH OF REGIONAL RECONCILIATION

Why regional reconciliation is important? What would we do if we hadn’t regional reconciliation? So, what would we do if we had regional reconciliation? Is it enough to have only regional reconciliation? How can I contribute to regional reconciliation?

Regional reconciliation is not only important, it’s necessary if we want to have stability in our country firstly, and than in the region. If we hadn’t regional reconciliation, than no way we could develop and integrate to NATO and EU, because always we would be sensitive against each-other.

If we achieve regional reconciliation, it’s true that we pass one necessary step, but it’s not enough. After we pass the phase of regional reconciliation, then it comes the next phase called regional cooperation. Regional cooperation is another important phase, if we want to be stable and strong countries in the Balkans and beyond. One proverb says “Good neighbor is one who helps his neighbor”. But, if we are not reconciled, for sure we can’t have cooperation.

When we come to the personal part that how can I contribute to regional reconciliation, it’s very simple, and we don’t need supernatural abilities. Simply we need to know what we really want and how we want to achieve. Everything begins by mankind and it continues to leak at other people by the information of that person, and so goes on. The same practice applies here. Firstly we need to be convinced that we must achieve regional reconciliation, to contribute to it by discussing with friends, telling them our good experiences, gathering in a place with other young communities, to give them good experiences, making joint activities etc.

The reason why we need to choose young people is because young people are always innocent, because young people aren’t our future, they are our present that we should invest on them to have our good future.

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