Rusmir Mahmutcehajic

was born in 1948 in Stolac (Bosnia and Herzegovina). He is professor of applied physics at the University of Sarajevo, where he also lectures on the phenomenology of the sacred. He was a dissident during the Communist years, and in 1991 he was elected Vice President of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina. He also served as Minister of Energy, Mining, and Industry. In late 1993 he resigned from all governmental posts because of his opposition to the country’ s ethnic partition.