ABSTRACT
Building on the paradigms from the previous chapter, this part of the book proposes to approach the legacy of trauma through educating rather healing, prevention rather than rehabilitation, and transformation rather than abolishment. With the examples of the UNFPA theater project with youth and the author’s own experiences from the workshops with the survivors and postwar youth, the author debates the tension between memorialization fatigue, on the one side, and persistent silence, on the other. While many survivors fight daily to break the silence that perpetuates impunity and in this way achieve justice, the postwar generations, today’s teenagers, often feel overloaded by the war memories that overshadow the problems of their own zeitgeist, such as unemployment and mass depopulation. While survivors express their worries and concerns about transmitting their own traumas, they also want to be able to control and prevent this from happening again. However, the author questions how experiences and knowledge from survivors can compete with those of the descendants that live in a context, where information and consultation on sexuality, sexual violence, and consent is easier to obtain, due to the strong impact of online resources and social media.
