Twenty years after the end of the violent break‐up of Yugoslavia, new generations of young people in Serbia are living with its legacies. Despite the socio‐psychological implications of violent conflict in post‐conflict societies being well established in the literature, there are still only a few studies which focus on young Serbians’ meaning‐making in relation to the recent wars. The present study focuses on how a group of young Serbians, born after the violence was over, understands the violent break‐up of Yugoslavia. The article presents the analysis of interviews and group discussions with 31 first‐year university students in Serbia about these events. The goal of the analysis is to determine a) whether participants’ narratives contain identifiable themes of a collective memory of conflict and b) whether participants normalize past violence through narrative. The relationship between the two as well as the relationship between history textbooks and participants’ narratives will be discussed. Finally, the findings are discussed in regard to how participants’ understandings of past violence might shape their political positioning in relation to nationalism.

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下一代：关于南斯拉夫解体的塞尔维亚学生叙事中的民族主义和暴力

在南斯拉夫的暴力瓦解结束后的20年，塞尔维亚的年轻人世代相传。尽管文献中已充分确立了冲突后社会中暴力冲突的社会心理影响，但仍然只有少数研究关注年轻塞尔维亚人与近期战争有关的意义。本研究的重点是在暴力结束后出生的一群年轻塞尔维亚人如何理解南斯拉夫的暴力分裂。本文介绍了对31名塞尔维亚一年级大学生就这些事件进行的访谈和小组讨论的分析结果。分析的目的是确定a）参与者的叙述是否包含对冲突的集体记忆的可识别主题，以及b）参与者是否通过叙述使过去的暴力行为正常化。将讨论两者之间的关系以及历史教科书和参与者叙述之间的关系。最后，讨论了关于参与者对过去暴力的理解如何影响他们与民族主义有关的政治立场的发现。