Talk with Father Ivo Markovic, a Bosnian Friar

Father Ivo Markovic, a Bosnian Friar, is a founder of Pontanima, an interreligious choir based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is widely acclaimed as an innovative peacemaking project, a shining representation of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and a major contributor to the country's cultural life. The choir and its founder received Search for Common Ground Reconciliation Through the Arts Award (2004) and the Tanenbaum Peacemakers in Action Award (1998), among others.

Father Ivo gave a talk on the status of interreligious cooperation and reconciliation in today's Bosnia, which remains a very unsettled place even 16 years after the war ended.

Speakers

• Father Ivo Markovic
  Founder, Pontanima Interreligious Choir
  Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
   
• Renata Stuebner, Introduction
  Senior Program Assistant, Religion and Peacemaking Center
  U.S. Institute of Peace

Explore Further

• Listen to an audio recording of this event
• Countries and Regions: Bosnia-Herzegovina
• USIP Initiative: Balkans