The 12^th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week

February 5–12, 2024

International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo

International Forum Bosnia will be holding a programme of events to mark the 12^th Sarajevo UN World Interfaith Harmony Week this year in response to the appeal by the UN General Assembly session held on October 20, 2010, to member-states. While International Forum Bosnia will, as usual, be organising and coordinating the activities, a number of other national and international organisations and societies will also be participating and contributing.

The key themes of this year's programme are summed up in the title:

Global Ethics: Urgent Questions and Challenges.

The programme will take place on Wednesday the 5^th of February and Thursday the 12^th of February. There will be three academic panels. The panels will take the form of hybrid meetings, with some participants present in person and others through Zoom. Participants will be from public and academic life in Bosnia, other universities around the world, and the Bosnian diaspora. The panels will be on the following topics:

Ø  First Panel on Global Ethics: Jewish, Christian, and Muslims Views on Urgent Questions and Challenges

The project to conceive of and institute a Global Ethics lies at the heart of all the monotheisms and the universal or world religions. More specifically, the globalisation of the ethical out of our necessarily individual encounter with and responsibility before a personal but transcendent God is the common core of the Abrahamic traditions. His Oneness is the guarantor of our uniqueness. It is reflected in the shared complex of sacrificial individualism on which all three of these traditions and communities are built. Nothing is more urgent at the present juncture of Jewish, Muslim, and Christian relations than the challenge of recovering and developing this ethical common ground in the construction of plural post-secular orders and societies that can balance the demands of identity with those of difference, as we emerge towards global forms of interaction and find ways to respect and manage the conflict of rights and claims that is inherent to coexistence within a world that can never be anything but shared.

February 8, 2024

11 a.m. – 15 p.m.

First Panel on Global Ethics: Jewish, Christian, and Muslims Views on Urgent Questions and Challenges

Moderator: Džamna Duman

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Meeting ID: 897 5937 9033

Passcode: 655888

Mile Babić, A Reflection on the Declaration of the Parliament of the World’s Religions

Amra Hadžimuhamedović, Perceiving the Creator through the Veils of Arrogance and Oblivion: Contemporary Shaping of Religious Heritage by Navigating the Nature-Culture Interplay

Alen Kristić, The Challenge of Ecological Address: The Question of the Credibility of the Abrahamic Religions and the Dialogue between them in and beyond the Bosnian and Herzegovinian Context

Rusmir Šadić, The Aesthetics of the Sacred: On Navid Kermani’s Books, God is Beautiful and Wonder beyond Belief: On Christianity

Krsto Mijanović, The Ethics of Bosnianhood as seen from the Orthodox Church