Rebuilding a country of citizens and not enemies. It sometimes takes a generation or two.

Animal activist Aldin Pasic carries off a stray dog in the Sarajevo suburb of Dobrnja, Bosnia. Sarajevo has become the only city in Bosnia where a law banning the killing of strays is respected thanks to a new city-funded dog shelter that performs sterilizations.
Photo: Amel Emric, Associated Press / SF

Neutering stray dogs is a small price to pay for the appreciation of life.

By Daria Sito-Sucic

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - A co-hosting (click here) of the European Youth Olympics by Bosnia's capital Sarajevo and a Serb-run former suburb should foster cooperation across former wartime front lines and help boost a struggling economy, municipal and sports officials said on Monday.

Sarajevo and East Sarajevo won a joint bid at the weekend to hold the European Youth Olympic Winter Festival (EYOWF) in 2017, boosting hopes of rehabilitating negative images of ethnic division lingering from Bosnia's 1992-95 war and reviving the spirit of the 1984 Winter Olympics hosted by Sarajevo.

The Sarajevo Olympics were held when Bosnia was still part of federal Yugoslavia, which broke up violently two decades ago. Most Olympic facilities on nearby mountains were destroyed during the war but many have been rebuilt in recent years....