INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE
“DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA AND THE WORLD”
Bosnia and Herzegovina entered the 21st century with two long-term, global and depopulation demographic processes – total depopulation (declining population) and demographic aging. All this is accompanied by a very pronounced spatial-regional and urban-rural polarization of the population. Since 2007, these demographic processes have been joined by the demographic process of natural depopulation (more deaths than live births), which has especially become extremely pronounced with the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The population of Bosnia and Herzegovina is characterized by very low fertility, negative natural change, emigration depopulation, overall depopulation and pronounced ageing of the population. These processes take long enough to speak of the very unfavorable demographic development of the population of Bosnia and Herzegovina, which has its direct implications in all spheres of life and work.
International scientific conference – “Demographic challenges in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world”, is dedicated to applied science. Researchers engaged in population science seek to understand the impact of natural and social phenomena on the population in the space around them. Therefore, the research are referred to the objective world around us.
According to UN sources, on November 15, 2022, the world's population exceeded 8 billion. Bosnia and Herzegovina and other countries around the world are facing numerous demographic challenges and problems to which science should offer timely solutions that would be incorporated into government policies. In this sense, a special interest of the conference are comparative experiences and values from neighboring and other countries of the world.
The main goal of the conference is to familiarize scientists and the general public with the results of the latest scientific research of domestic and foreign experts, and thus enable a better transfer of scientific achievements into the politics and practice of population development. Our wish is to establish better cooperation of scientists from universities, scientific institutions and experts from various related disciplines and activities, but also policy decision-makers from Bosnia and Herzegovina and the world, in a common field of interest in science and demographic practice.
Objective application of demographic research results must be widely represented in the policy of overall development of Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as in all other countries. In addition to the above mentioned, issues such as social inequality, resolving social conflicts, the development of culture and its geographical distribution, as well as the adoption of policies of importance for the development of a community are particularly important.
Scientists who deal with population development issues can and must contribute significantly to understanding natural and social processes in the context of problems that burden the modern population. Based on these facts, we dedicate this Conference to applied science, with the aspiration that it be far more represented within the space in which we live and create.
Organizers: Faculty of Science, University of Sarajevo in cooperation with the Center for Advanced Studies Sarajevo and Geographical Society in FBiH.
Conference “Demographic Challenges in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the World” invitation is available at the following link.
More information about the conference program, topics and presenters can be found here.
