Sazetak

Abstract:

Sarajevo 2001. December, near the end of Ramadan, near the end of Chanukah, approaching Christmas and a few of us, Jews, Muslims, and Christians were in the Aeroplan Restaurant debating how to continue our collaborations which had begun a few years previously. At that meeting we established the International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (ISSRPL) what became with time, and remains, CEDAR- Communities Engaging with Religion and Difference. About four years earlier Rusmir Mahmutcehajic had invited me to Sarajevo to find out just who I was. A visiting American sociologist had given him my book on trust, and he realized that this was the most important component of any post-war social order in Bosnia-Herzegovina. He had invited me to Sarajevo to learn more on trust and how it could be promoted in society. That first meeting, back in the late 1990’s became the basis of many joint projects and inter-commual activities.