The 2nd International Conference Unity and Plurality in Europe: Religion and Public Life

Location: Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Period: 12.-14. August 2007
Application deadline: 15. June 2007
Scholarship / Financial aid: none
Open to: all interested
Participation fee: 200 EUR

International Forum Bosnia, with a support from Swedish government, and in cooperation with numerous non-governmental and governmental organisations from Bosnia and Herzegovina and abroad will organise the International Conference entitled Unity and Plurality in Europe: Religion and Public Life (IC UPE:RPL).

The conference aim is to set in motion changes in knowledge, views and approaches in the interpretation and application of modern and traditional understandings of the relationship between religion and public life. The entire conference is conceived as a long-term exercise in building on developing international networks for this type of exchange of knowledge, views and approaches. The organizers believe that this will contribute to an interpretation of religion as an active factor of peace and act as a barrier to its abuse by ethno-national, ethno-religious and by other ideologies, tensions and conflicts.

The conference program will include researchers from all over the world, as well as participants in various enterprises focused on understanding and strengthening trust among different collective identities in contemporary societies.

It will be organized around three roundtables (Unity and Plurality in Europe : Religion and Civil Society; The "Roma Question" in Europe ; Religion and Public Life).

For more information, please click here

Participation fee is 200 EUR. It includes accommodation, food, materials and informal activities.

Applications should be tendered to ifbosna@bih.net.ba  not later then June 15th 2007. All applicants will be informed on decision of the IFB Organizational Board by June 30th 2007.

Click here for the application form

General document

For more information: http://www.ifbosna.org.ba