Resources for Teachers and Students
Prepare: Global Heroes, an electronic magazine (e-zine),
was created to "highlight the positive in the world"
by publishing inspirational stories of people from different
countries. One of the inspirational people they've written
about is Nadja
Haililbegovich.
Read:
Nadja Halilbegovich wrote an
original essay for the Architects of Peace project.
In it, she relates her personal experience of living in
a war zone in Sarajevo for four years.
Explore: The United Nations Peacekeeping Mission
in Bosnia and Herzegovina, established in 1995, was able
to be terminated at the end of 2002. One of the major projects
of the mission had been to restructure and reform the national
police force, thus providing for the security of the citizenry.
The fact that the United Nations could actually consider
its mission to be accomplished after a period of seven years
was considered by many to be a major step forward in the
global peacekeeping process. Please visit the UN website
or more information on the Bosnia
and Herzegovina Mission.
Write: In her Architects of Peace essay, Nadja Halilbegovich
quotes her father's maxim, "One who doesn't respect
the religion of others cannot respect one's own." While
the truth of this statement is evident, it becomes difficult
not to observe that a great deal of warfare, even in this
modern age, is between believers from different faith traditions.
Shouldn't people of faith be less likely to participate
in armed conflict than others? Compose a three-to-four page
expository essay exploring the relationship between religion,
respect, and peace.
Extend: Nadja Halilbegovich has been a longtime
supporter of an organization called Youth
for Environmental Sanity (YES!), and has spoken
at one of the "Youth Jams" sponsored by that organization.
Biography of Nadja
Haililbegovich