What follows is a Question & Answer Interview with Sanela.

Q: How many members are there in your family?
A: 5

Q: What are the ages of the children?
A: me:25 sister: 22 brother: 17

Q: Are both parents living at home?
A: Yep, we all live together

Q: How many members are working to support your family?
A: 2 - Dad and me

Q: What do they do for work?
A: Dad is managing a store (supermarket), and I am Deputy Spokesperson for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Q: What issues are you affected by? What are some major issues affecting your country right now? How and in what ways are you most affected?
A: As you know we are post-war society, issues like return of refugees and displaced persons are the most burning issues. Then besides that issue, there are things like privatization (very complicated process of turning the state owned companies - from previous system into the private owned companies), banking system, corruption...

Q: What is your opinion on the issues and status of your nation?
A: Time heals all wounds, but people will remember the war forever, but still I believe that there is hope that people will continue to love together - we can not exist on our own.

Q: How is your family directly being affected by the problems/and or good things from relations with other countries?
A: Other countries? In general we can only see positive sides in dealing with other countries.

Q: How is your family doing financially?
A: Could be better, but we are in good shape - more or less

Q: If you were in charge, how would you fix the problems; what would you do and what do you think is the solution?
A: I would turn back the clock - but I would keep the memory of the people, so maybe the war could be avoided.

Q: What kind of education have your children received, or are receiving?
A: Sister is student - economics (Sarajevo University) - my brother is in Secondary School, and I am on University as well - economics and computers sciences

Q: What are some traditions/rituals of your culture that your family abides to?
A: Not much - family holidays only - We are Muslims, so we have our holidays, but of course since I have lot of friends and some of the family members who are Catholics and/or Orthodox - we also abide Christmases and Easters - so we have two of all holidays...:) which is really good...

Q: What is the predominant religion in your area?
A: Bosnians (Muslims), Serbs (Orthodox Catholics) and Croats (Christian Catholics)

Q: Is your family happy?
A: We are all together, alive and I think that we are happy and very much thankful for having each other.