Tarik Haverić

Haverić was born in Sarajevo, SR Bosnia and Herzegovina, SFR Yugoslavia on 28 March 1955.^[3] His paternal lineage stems from Podgorica, Montenegro.^[4] In the autumn of 1969, he was enrolled at the prestigious First Sarajevo Gymnasium, the oldest secondary school in Bosnia and Herzegovina whose alumni include novelist and Nobel Prize laureate Ivo Andrić and chemist and Nobel Prize laureate Vladimir Prelog.^[5] As a child, Haverić was an avid chess player receiving the title of FIDE Master in his early teens.^[6]

In 1974 Haverić enrolled at the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, where he studied theatre directing. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1978.^[7] Simultaneously he studied classical philosophy and comparative literature at the University of Zagreb, where he received a further two Bachelor of Arts degrees in 1978 and 1979, respectively.^[8] In 1989 he received his Master of Arts degree in classical philosophy from the University of Sarajevo with a thesis titled Medieval Philosophical Terminology in the Arabic language.^[9] He earned his Ph.D. in political science at Paris Nanterre University for his thesis on the dichotomy between democracy and ethnocracy in 1999.^[10][11]

In 1988, Haverić became a lecturer at the Academy of Performing Arts in Sarajevo, which was a position he held for two years. In 2000 he became a tenured junior professor at the political science department of the Paris Nanterre University.^[12] In 2006 he became a visiting lecturer at the Faculty of Law and Faculty of Political Science of the University of Sarajevo, as well as a visiting lecturer at the University of Gothenburg.^[13] In 2017, he signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.^[14]