The International Summer School on Religion and Public Life (ISSRPL) is an interreligious summer school that meets for approximately two weeks each year at various sites in Europe, Israel and the United States. By providing an international framework for students, civic leaders and prominent scholars to explore the intersection of religion and the public sphere, the ISSRPL aims to develop new strategies of tolerance and pluralism while maintaining a commitment to tradition and religious identity. The school's guiding belief is that in order to build tolerance and understanding between groups and to shape a civil society, the perceived barrier between secular, modern and more traditional religious values must be broken down.

The ICPL is a cosponsor of this endeavor and is the only American institution involved in the ISSRPL. The summer school will be held in Jerusalem in July 2005 and in Boston on the adjacent campuses of Andover Newton Theological School and Hebrew College, home of the ICPL, in 2006.

PROJECT CO-DIRECTORS
Dr. Ivo Banac, Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik
Dr. Rusmir Mahmutcehajic, International Forum Bosnia, Sarajevo
Dr. Riccardo Panattoni, Verona University, Verona
Dr. Adam B. Seligman, Interreligious Center on Public Life, Boston

CONTACT THE ISSRPL
International Forum Bosna
Ferhadija 30/III
Sarajevo
Bosna i Hercegovina
Tel: + (387 33) 232-470, 232-471, 232-472
Fax: + (387 33) 232-473
Email: if_bosna@bih.net.ba
www.ifbosna.org.ba