Amra Sabić-El-Rayess on the importance of storytelling and how war experience can help resilience to hatred

Can the experience of genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina help prevent radicalization of schoolchildren as far as the United States? According to Amra Sabić-El-Rayess, a writer and associated professor at the Columbia university, it can. For it shows that the very origin of hatred and radicalization is not some inherent badness in people, but their perceived invisibility, sense of not belonging. 

This is an edited version of the lecture given by Amra Sabić-El-Rayess at the University of Antwerp on April 25, 2024.