When the nation itself struggles for identity and political stability, those in power exert pressure on citizens to express certain ideas and not others. Pressure to speak in ways that justify a war or prove that the country is moving beyond a violent past, for example, may affect the powerless in society, including young people and minorities, because they have not been privy to decisions governing these discourses. As discussed in Chapter 3, scripts by young people narrating conflicts among adults organize mundane events consistent with societal circumstances. Young people have the right to critique violence in their society, yet it is in just such circumstances that critique is dangerous and narrating becomes a cunning enterprise. With the understanding that youth, like nations, can use story-telling, in part, to manage their relations in society, the DSTY research workshop includes a fiction-writing activity (see Figure 2.6). In this story, Moira, a 19-year-old in Croatia, played with a political script: