Ivan Šijaković

Ivan Sijakovic*, Ph.D.,
Summary

In this work we do research on how the post war development and the transitional period through which is going the society in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and especially in the Republic of Srpska, is affecting the forming of values, value attitudes, and the building of the value profile of young people. We have stated that poverty, poor economic development, social disintegration, political, ethnic and cultural divisions and conflicts are creating a feeling of life anxiety and act frustrating on most of young people in the Republic of Srpska. That affects the forming of the value system in which freedom, justice, and honesty take the first three places on the ranking of values, and are put before knowledge, personal success and work. Aspiration for freedom and justice motivates young people to leave or to want to leave the territory of the Republic of Srpska and Bosnia and Herzegovina.