Nonkilling Balkans Exploratory Forum, Sarajevo 2014

The Nonkilling Balkans Forum Initiative will be organizing in collaboration with the Center for Global Nonkilling and local universities in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Nonkilling Balkans Exploratory Forum on August 28 and 29, 2014. The Forum follows the tracks of the Nonkilling Korea: Six Culture Exploratory Seminar (Seoul, August 2010) but with significant innovations and regional dimensions.

The 2014 Nonkilling Balkans Exploratory Forum is presented as “a Balkans and global gathering of leaders from a broad range of scientific and humanitarian disciplines” with the goal of exploring the possibilities of: Transforming the Balkans as a whole into a world region whose future will be free of killing of humans by humans; Supporting numerous Balkans and Balkans-related global ideas and movements aiming to establish, in this historically and politically volatile region, societies founded on the principles of humanitarian value of nonkilling.

The organization and delivery of this global gathering of scientists and humanists in Sarajevo in represents an orchestrated entry of this part of the world into the third millenium. This event will also coincide with the 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I – one of the bloodiest and most tragic pages of human history, symbolically started in Sarajevo in 1914.

Organizers Rifet Bahtijaragić (a Canadian-Bosnian author and member of the Nonkilling Arts Research Committee) and Ivana Milojević (Adjunct Professor, University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia, and Visiting Professor, University of Novi Sad, Serbia) welcome proposals to collaborate in the organization or participate in the event via: info@nonkillingbalkans.org