Public Symposium “Religious Organisations and Their Transformation in the Time of Crisis” 

Sometimes, religions are blamed for being a cause of wars and conflicts. However, religions the roles of religions in wars and conflicts are multifaceted and change at various stages. At this symposium, scholars from Japan as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina - both countries with a history of a war entangled with religion - gather in Sarajevo and examine how various religions are involved in wars and conflicts. 

Date and Time: February 28 (Wed) 10:00-17:30

Venue: Conference Room 12, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Sarajevo

Language: English

Program 

Part I 10:00-13:00 

Moderator: Dino ABAZOVIĆ

Opening remarks and general introduction to the topic

NAKAI Anna "Polish Intellectuals' Perspectives on Ukraine: A Reading of the Religious Monthly Znak in the 1980s” 

Sead TURČALO “Intellectual Responses on Ukraine Crisis from South-East European Perspective” (tentative)

 INOUE Madoka "On the institutionalization of Military Chaplains after the dissolution of the USSR”

 Samir FORIĆ“Institutionalization of Military Chaplains and Religious Insignias within Regional States’ Military Forces” (tentative) 

Part II 14:30-17:30 

Moderator: Selma ALISPAHIĆ

KAMBARA Yuko "Ukrainian Refugee and Catholic Churches in Slovakia: Voluntary Supports by Roman Catholic and Greek Catholic” 

Pavle MIJOVIĆ “Problems of Refugees Since 1990’ s Ex-Yugoslav Crisis” (tentative) 

TAKAHASHI Sanami "The One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church: Russian and Ukrainian Orthodox Churches in Diaspora” 

Dino ABAZOVIĆ"The Orthodox Church, Montenegro and "Serbian World": The Review of Morrison and Garčević Paper" 

NISHIMURA Akira: Closing remarks