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Rock in a hard place - Mitrovica: Wendy Hassler-Forest at TEDxTirana

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Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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While the EU was able to facilitate dialogue about the future of Kosovo  at  government  level,  the  divide  between  local  communities remains  as rigid  as  ever.  In TEDxTirana, Wendy  Hassler-Forest, talks about how the Mitrovica Rock School has managed to  connect  hundreds  of  youth,  from  the  two communities, in a city where countless efforts at reconciliation had failed before. The reason why this was possible, as she herself admits, is because,  "at the Mitrovica Rock School,  music is the only thing that matters".
Wendy Hassler-Forest is the head of  Musicians without Borders' regional office for South East Europe. With parents with careers in peace work and music, she decided early on to go in  the  opposite  direction  and  aim  for  a  career  in  law.  Her  interest  in international relations pulled her back to the family business, and in 2008 she started at Musicians without Borders, co-organizing the start-up of the Mitrovica  Rock  School  in  Kosovo.

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