Press Conference: International Conference “The Role of Education in Promoting Global Peace and Tolerance in South-East Europe”

18 May Press Conference: International Conference “The Role of Education in Promoting Global Peace and Tolerance in South-East Europe”

The International Conference “The Role of Education in Promoting Global Peace and Tolerance in South-East Europe” is will be held on 21 and 22 May 2012 in the UNSA Rectorate. The Conference organizers are the University of Sarajevo and the DOHA International Center for Interfaith Dialogue in Doha (DICID).
On that occasion, on Friday, 18 May 2012 the press conference was held, on which about the purpose of the Conference, topics to be presented, as well as cooperation between these two institutions, spoke Rector, Prof. Dr Faruk Caklovica, Vice-Rector Prof. Dr Hazim Basic and Mr. Hamdi Blekich, Head of Public Relations Office of the Doha International Centre for Interfaith Dialogue.

The Conference is being organized upon the occasion of marking the 20th anniversary of the siege of the University, and it will bring together eminent professors from 14 countries (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Italy, Israel, Jordan, Qatar, Lebanon, Macedonia, Palestine, United States, Slovenia, Serbia, Turkey).
This conference represents the effort of the University of Sarajevo to promote and spread tolerance and the most humanistic goals.

The tragic part of the University of Sarajevo’s history, which spent 1479 days under war siege and which in the most brutal way, experienced the war suffering and the devastation of academic values, should serve as a warnings and moral for the international academic community throughout the world.. The Conference – “The Role of Education in Promoting Global Peace and Tolerance in South- East Europe” – will surely have a strong impact on the capacity building of peace at the regional level, which is one of the fundamental goals of education, wherever it is undergoing implementation.

Discussions regarding the conference organizing began on 27 June 2011. year, when e signed a Memorandum of Understanding between the University of Sarajevo and the Doha International Center for Interfaith Dialogue (DICID) had been signed.