The wars we did not fight: the embodiment of everyday peace by the Balkan's post-war generation

Programa de Doutoramento: International Politics and Conflict Resolution

Our puzzle is how youth deal on a daily basis with war narratives and experiencesthey did not have lived by themselves as they face school, institutions, family and war memorials. Although living in the everyday peace, the war is also constitutive of their sociability. In some sense, as a traumatic event for their countries, they live in the postmemory. The key to understanding these dynamics is to study the embodiment as a proxy to social action, as it is completely absent from peace studies discussion. Taking this route, we consider embodied subjectivities as the core of the everyday experience, bringing the lived body to the site of the peacebuilding. Our contribution centres in better understanding the role of youth in peacebuilding processes, making them more successful, sustainable, and resilient.