ABSTRACT

Sarajevo is in many aspects, a typical southern European city. In the evenings, its famous 'walking street' is full of young people and families strolling along, greeting friends, enjoying the feeling of being with other people. All over former Yugoslavia, schools were destroyed, teachers and pupils killed, while the rest of Europe looked on, trying to reason away irrationality. If major education changes and reforms occur after wars, partly to avoid their re-occurrence, it is important to examine why, in Europe as elsewhere, there has been only partial success in that aim. Europe has been formed by war, as indeed, has much of the world. As Freedman notes: Wars have taken place from the beginning of recorded time in all parts of the world. During the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars the nature of warfare changed. The conflict resolution potential of education has to be made more explicit and more realistic.