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From: "Bryan A. Alexander" 
Subject: Re: http://mediafilter.org/SJ/Pages/Arts for Peace

Mladi Most in Mostar was doing a noble effort along these lines.



Bryan Alexander
Department of English
University of Michigan
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On 8 Jan 1996 ksmith@efn.org wrote:

> I am trying to discover if there are any organizations (local or international)
> 
> who are using art as a bridge to peace between the peoples of the former
> Yugoslavia.
> 
> Some friends of mine and I have been thinking about a project that would
> involve the
> 
>  use of art to bring children together from Muslin, Serb and Croat families.
> 
>   You may be familiar with "penpals" from your elementary school days
> where you exchanges
> 
>  messages with someone in another part of the country or world.  Being a
> penpal opened up
> 
>  a whole new world and undertanding of different cultures, dreams and problems.
> 
> We are wondering if there is any interest in using art to exchange
> feelings, thoughts and
> 
> hopes between the children of Bosnia, Croatia an Serbia -- or within any
> community within
> 
>  the country?  Our hope is to find an organization that may already be
> 
> conducting a program like this in order to further peace through the
> 
> expression of art.
> 
> 
> 
> If you have any knowledge of such a program or organization, please write to
> 
> at:  ksmith@efn.org
> 
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
>