The story related to events that occurred at the end of 2001, when the former Yugoslavia was in a state of flux. I attended a European training conference and it was here that a young woman shared her last piece of chewing gum with me. We never spoke but I discovered she was from Yugoslavia. I wrote and thanked her. She wrote back, telling me about her work with a youth non-governmental organisation (NGO) and explained how difficult it was to have any dialogue with government officials.
I had once taught a Yugoslavian ministry official and so decided to link the two of them up. I thought it would simply produce a courteous, but brief, encounter. Instead, it laid the foundations for thinking about youth policy in those new territories.
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