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Zlatko Lagumdžija, Former Prime Minister of Bosnia and Herzegovina, joins the History of AI Board

August 30, 2020

Prime Minister Zlatko Lagumdzija, also a professor of Computer Science, becomes a Member of the History of AI Board. He was a speaker at the United Nations 2045 Roundtable together with the Father of the Internet Vint Cerf on August 21, 2020.

Over 30 years of top academic and political experience including senior level functions in the
Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina as the Prime Minister and Acting Prime Minister,
two times as Deputy Prime Minister and two times as Minister of Foreign Affairs, six times
elected Member of the Parliament and leader of the largest multi-ethnic political party in the
country in various periods between 1992 and 2015.
Strong exposure to national and international development, including institutions building,
economies in transition and competitiveness, strategic use of information technologies,
inclusive and sustainable development, promoting diversity, shared societies, participation
and dialogue, consensus building, leadership during country’s recent turbulent history in
ending the conflict, peace-building and recovery.
Member of Club de Madrid-The World Leadership Alliance and World Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Founder of Shared Societies and Values Sarajevo Foundation.
Professor at School of Business and Economics and School of Electrical Engineering,
Sarajevo University since 1989. with PhD in Computer Science. Fulbright Scholar in the USA
as postdoctoral researcher and professor. Visiting and distinguished professor of different
universities in Europe, Asia and America among which are Distinguished Professor at
Swartzman College, Tsinghua University as well as BRI School and EMI of Beijing Normal
University.
Member of the Board of Trustees of Nizami International Center, member of Board of
Trustees Bibliotheca Alexandrina and member of numerous International Missions and
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Thank you, thank you very much. I’m really honored and privileged to be with you, and of course I want to thank to Michael Dukakis and Boston Global Forum for remaining such impressive group of people there in your premises in Boston. And of course us who are able to be with you, not share the floor but share the screen at least, along with such a very important topic of course, it’s my very honor and privilege also to its entire time to speak after my multiple president, president Danilo Turk, who is my president very many times, usually before as a president of Club de Madrid, and now as the Co-Chair  and president of the international center, which now I again very easily call my dear friend as my president Vaira. Of course after her speech about Ukraine especially about having in mind and her experience, her knowledge, her wisdom, and her passion about people who are going through such a terrible terrible terrible challenges like Ukraine people do, because as she mentioned obviously a very tough experience in her lifetime as refugees, running away from a similar type of evil that is chasing Ukrainian people today. Of course at the same time I have also actually shared with you a few of my personal experiences with a recent one and not so recently recent one is as a member of the NGIC team that and the leadership of Moldova we put together in the last month. First we want to visit refugees. Refugee acceptance in Moldova, in Romania, and in Poland, and that experience is in order to take some kind of let’s say make anything which is possible to somehow you know to help the people who just not so long time ago had normal lives that suddenly just fell apart. I was in, as i said in Moldova, at least in one few refugee center, and just to give you the feeling of it, Moldova is one of the smallest countries in Europe, but countries show that they’re a small

Zlatko Lagumdžija, former deputy prime minister of Bosnia, speaks about the repercussions of neutral approaches to peacekeeping missions and emphasizes the need for greater attention to atrocity prevention and early warning systems. 

Transcript

So I think that in situations like this, we have to be very clear that what are the values, what we stand for, where we get something, someplace. And we have to somehow, to protect those values. That is the only way to protect the lives of innocent people. Otherwise, you simply don’t go there.

Now, the mechanisms that we’re witnessing, that were part of our recent history, were multilateral mechanisms that were definitely not able to respond to the challenges that were behind us. So that is the reason why it is, from my perspective, more than evident that we have to invest much more in prevention, much more in early warning systems, and much more in being responsible to protect people before we get into that kind of madness. So values, words, and deeds somehow should meet in the middle of the problem that we want to tackle.

Our role is not to explain the history. Our role is to be changing the history. And I see this exercise as an element of being able to produce some tools as the result of knowledge, and a knowledge base, but productive tools of how to avoid the history in its darkest periods.

If, after World War I [sic], Never Again was the slogan that new generation grew and grew, we got surprised that Srebrenica happened as a genocide in the middle of Europe, just a year after a genocide in Africa, in Rwanda. But genocide in Europe, on the same soil where we were having a genocide in World War II, this is something which made us even more responsible to be serious about Never Again. And if we have to wait for the third time, when it’s going to be Never Again, then we are definitely people who don’t deserve to have a decent future.

So that is the reason

Zlatko Lagumdzija (born 26 December 1955) was President of the SDP BiH political party in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1997 to 2014, as well as Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1996 and as Foreign Minister from 2001 to 2002 and from 2012 to 2015.

Biography[]

Zlatko Lagumdzija was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia in 1955, and he became a professor at the University of Sarajevo in 1989. In 1992, he switched his party affiliation from the League of Communists of Yugoslavia to the Social Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and he served as Alija Izetbegovic's Deputy Prime Minister from 1993 to 1996, during the Bosnian War. He succeeded in convincing the United Nations to protect the Bosniaks of Srebrenica during the war. From 1996 to 2014, he served as a member of the House of Representatives, and he served as President of the SDP BiH from 1997 to 2014 and as Foreign Minister from 2001 to 2002 and from 2012 to 2015.