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Interfaith Dialogue and Peacebuilding: A Case Study on Bosnia-Herzegovina Post-Conflict Educational System

The scope of this chapter is to study interreligious dialogue and peacebuilding processes across the educational sector within post-conflict Bosnian society. In our analysis, we primarily consider theoretical frameworks that allowed connecting the concepts of interreligious dialogue, religious freedom, and reconciliation within a society’s peacebuilding phase. We provide an overview of national and international standards that serve as a normative framework for the intersecting processes of interreligious dialogue, religious freedom implementation, and post-conflict development. The analysis of case studies on interreligious policies in the public education sector is presented to discern the socio- religious and socio-legal factors that impede interreligious dialogue in post-conflict conditions. Finally, wWe conclude that iIn the context of post-conflict society of Bosnia and Herzegovina during the peacebuilding phase, the normative concern of religious freedom received its deeper ideational meaning making its claims dependent on institutionalized interreligious dialogue between majority religions. However, the paper demonstrates how the implications of religious freedom and inter-faith dialogue in the educational sector depend on larger societal conditions in which a range of social conflicts, including ethno-religious ones, are perpetuated due to various political and social interests.

interreligious dialogue, religious freedom, post-conflict development, peacebuilding, educational sector, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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