Hear Our Voices ZLATA FILIPOVIĆ
Even in Chaos: Education in Times of Emergency,
05/2010
Book Chapter
This book contains contributions by many distinguished authors who bring their expansive knowledge, research, and experience to bear on the issue of education in emergencies. My aim is to offer ...another viewpoint, that of children and young people like myself who have experienced conflict and who lost and (in some lucky cases) regained their education in this particular kind of emergency. I will refer to my experience, that of my friends and colleagues, my fellow members of the Network of Young People Affected by Conflict (NYPAW), and my research into young people’s experiences during the time of war. My desire
A young teacher attempted to engage a class of high-risk urban students by introducing them to books about intolerance and ethnic misunderstanding and developing their own awareness of discrimination ...and social bias through diaries that documented their own thoughts and feelings. Calling themselves the "Freedom Writers," these students arranged for visits from the woman who sheltered Anne Frank's family, and Zlata Filipovic, the author of a memoir of a child's life in Bosnia. Entries from the teacher's diary and entries from student writings are grouped into sections corresponding to eight semesters in the high school. (SLD)
Daily, children like me, like us, around the world, go into cellars and hiding places, into refugee camps or into the army. If sustainable peace is to be attained, we all firmly believe that ...education should be an integral part of every peace agreement, and strong attention should be given to all education projects in both conflict and post-conflict countries. With a third of the world's population under the age of 15, children should all be assured the right to mandatory and free education, despite wars, natural disasters, poverty, disease, epidemics and post-conflict recoveries.
I remember trying to write a book report when I heard the first gunshots of my life; sounds that no child, anywhere in the world, should ever hear. I tried hard to concentrate on my homework ...assignment, worried what the teacher might say the next day. That was the last book report I did for almost two years of my life during the conflict in Bosnia.
Je me souviens que je faisais une explication de texte lorsque, pour la première fois de ma vie, j’ai entendu des coups de feu, des sons qu’aucun enfant, où qu’il soit, ne devrait entendre. J’ai ...essayé de me concentrer sur mon devoir, inquiète de ce que le professeur pourrait dire le jour suivant. Ce fut mon dernier devoir pendant presque deux ans de conflit en Bosnie.
Child of war Filipovic, Zlata
Newsweek,
02/1994, Letnik:
123, Številka:
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Magazine Article
Excerpts of "Zlata's Diary: A Child's Life in Sarajevo" are presented. The diary chronicles the life of a young girl caught in the civil war in Bosnia-Hercegovina.
