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Convenors, Sponsors and Organising Committee
Pathways to Reconciliation and Global Human Rights, Sarajevo, 2005
was organised by the Globalism Institute, RMIT University. The
Globalism Institute was inaugurated in 2002. Its brief is to initiate
and manage research projects involving academics, researchers and
government and community-based practitioners from diverse backgrounds.
These collaborative projects draw on expertise from across the university
in fields such as global politics, international relations, community
studies, cross-cultural communication, international education, international
trade, productive diversity, and media studies. This work involves
creative dialogue and exchange within the university and in the public
sphere of community, governmental and non-governmental contexts.
The conference was convened in partnership with the United Nations Development Program in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It also builds on the efforts of two networks of which the Globalism Institute is a member: the Global Reconciliation Network and the Globalization Studies Network, and is the fourth in a series titled Pathways to Reconciliation originated by the Global Reconciliation Network (GRN).
The first conference, After September 11: The Ethical Consequences,
was held in Melbourne (2002). This was followed by Thinking through
a Collapsing World: Pathways to Reconciliation, an intensive
3-day workshop held in London (2003). An immediate outcome of the
workshop was the formal establishment of the GRN, an active international
association convened in Melbourne, Australia which is committed to
initiating new projects in support of reconciliation. The third conference
in the series, titled Towards Harmony: Conflict Resolution & Reconciliation
is one such project. Organised by Ganesh Devy, Director of the Tribal
Academy at Tejgadh and Professor of Humanities at the University of
India, the conference was held in New Delhi in December 2004.
The Globalization Studies Network (GSN) is a worldwide association formed out of a forum held in Ottawa (2003) and carried forward by a conference in Warwick, UK, (2004). The network links programmes of research, education and public policy as a means of fostering dialogue and debate about the nature, direction and possible re-direction of globalisation. The Sarajevo conference will provide a setting for substantively taking up one of the major concerns of the GSN in dialogue with a broad constituency of practitioners and scholars.
Pathways to Reconciliation and Global Human Rights, Sarajevo, 2005 was convened in association with:
- Association of Citizens for Truth and Reconciliation (Sarajevo)
- Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies, University of Sarajevo
- Community, Habitat & Finance (CHF) International
- REZ-RDA (Zenica)
- Embassy of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Canberra)
- International Commission on Missing Persons (Sarajevo)
- Ministry of Civil Affairs of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Ministry of Human Rights and Refugees of Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Missing Persons Institute (Sarajevo)
- Refugee Health Research Centre (Melbourne)
- Research and Documentation Centre (Sarajevo)
- Society for Threatened Peoples (Göttingen/Sarajevo)
- Sources of Insecurity Network (Melbourne)
 FENA provided media coverage of the conference and related events in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the region of the former Yugoslavia.
In Melbourne, Cro World Travel was the conference travel sponsor: www.crotravel.com.au
Organising Committee Members
- Cleo Fleming, Globalism Institute, RMIT, University, Melbourne
- Hariz Halilovich, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne
- Micheline Ishay, Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, U.S.A
- Paul James (Convenor), Director of the Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne
- Paul Komesaroff, Director of the Centre for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society, Monash University, Melbourne
- Peter Phipps, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne
- Philipa Rothfield, Philosophy Program, La Trobe University, Melbourne
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