The Tenth Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week

Politics, Religion, and Tolerance

7–14 February, 2022.

International Forum Bosnia will be hosting its Tenth Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week from the 7th to the 14th of February this year. This reflects International Forum Bosnia's response to the call addressed by the UN General Assembly session held on October 20, 2010 to member-states, inviting them to organize programmes during the first week of February each year that contribute to the understanding of religious plurality and build trust between the component elements of that plurality. The key themes of this year's programme are summed up in the title, Politics, Religion, and Tolerance.

The programme of the Tenth Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week will take place on Zoom. It includes the following panels:

• Opening session

7 February (Monday), from 14.00 – 15.00h, Zoom

Opening adress:

Rusmir Mahmutćehajić, Religious pluralism and social capital

Asim Zubčević, Ivo Marković, Krsto Mijanović, Amra Hadžimuhamedović, On the participants and their talks

• First Panel on Politics, Religion, and Tolerance

7 February (Monday), from 15.00 – 17.00h, Zoom

Asim Zubčević, moderator

Vladislav Topalović, On Christian views of love

Asim Kurjak, Ethico-legal aspects of human reproduction

Fatima Mahmutćehajić, The legal and ethical responsibility of government for building a culture of peace

Rusmir Šadić, Encounter: Towards singular-plural being

Mile Babić, The Bosnian Franciscan understanding of the individual

•Second Panel on Religious Plurality and the Formative Books of the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Traditions

8 February (Tuesday), from 14.00 – 16.00h, Zoom

Ivo Marković, moderator

Marko Antonio Brkić, The Medjugorean Visions in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world today

Mehmedalija Hadžić, Religious plurality and the heritage of the Prophet Muhammad

Igor Kožemjakin, On the other and the different in Jewish religious sources

Lejla Nakaš, The Gospels as reflected in mediaeval Bosnian charters

•Third Panel on Hatred, Celebrating Atrocities, and Intolerance in Ethno-Nationalist Ideologies

9 February (Wednesday), from 14.00 – 16.00h, Zoom

Krsto Mijanović, moderator

Nerin Dizdar, Cultural Racism in ethno-nationalist ideologies

Marko Attila Hoare, Genocidal antibosnianism since 1918

Desmond Maurer, Ethnic-cleansing and the ideology of sacrifice

Sabina Subašić Galijatović, Fear and hatred of the other as the source of atrocities

•Fourth Panel on The Sacred in Bosnian Cultural Heritage, I

10 February (Thursday), from 14.00 – 16.00h, Zoom

Amra Hadžimuhamedović, moderator

Nataša Tabori, Il Kal Grandi in Sarajevo – history, significance, and future

Gabriela Lindsay, On the architecture and architects of the Adventist Church in Sarajevo

Tarik Brunčević, On Novi Pazar's cultural heritage and protection challenges

•Fifth Panel on The Sacred in Bosnian Cultural Heritage, II

11 February (Friday), from 14.00 – 16.00h, Zoom

Amra Hadžimuhamedović, moderator

Boris Trapara, TheBosnian Franciscan Monasteriesduring the Austro-Hungarian period

Haris Dervišević, The return of the Banja Luka serdžada or prayer rug in Bosnian cultural memory

Amra Ćusto, The Sacralization of Political Ideas – the St Vitus' Day Chapel and the Turbe or Tomb of the Young Bosnians in Sarajevo

Closing address

The Friends of IFB

The work of International Forum Bosnia is supported by a wide range of organizations and individuals.

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