Michele Chiaruzzi (born September 12, 1983, in City of San Marino, San Marino) is the current ambassador of San Marino to Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the first sammarinese ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina at unusually young age and supposedly the youngest European resident ambassador at the time, having presented his credential letters in 2008 to the President Haris Silajdžić.[1][2]
Career
He has been a taekwondo fighter at the St. Petersburg Student World Championships, and he holds a PhD in history from the Scuola Superiore di Studi Storici di San Marino.[3][4][5] Before his diplomatic role, he has been a visiting fellow with the Centre for International Studies at the London School of Economics and Political Science, and the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University while American diplomat and author Richard Holbrooke was serving as professor at large.[6][7] A Clare Hall Life Member at Cambridge, and Professor at Bologna, he is the founding director of the Research Centre for International Relations at the University of San Marino.[8][9] He has been described as "one of the few people in the microstate who might qualify for the designation ‘public intellectual’".[10] He is recognised for his research on the British scholar Martin Wight. His book Martin Wight on Fortune and Irony in Politics includes the unpublished ‘Fortune’s Banter’, a text subsequently reproduced without «Professor Chiaruzzi’s extensive and impressive scholarly annotations» in the Oxford University Press collection of Wight's miscellaneous works.[11] His unusual diplomatic figure has attracted international media attention.[12] He has been one of the protagonists in Goran Milic's documentary for Al Jazeera "Alkemija Balkana".[13] On 14 July 2010, on his initiative the local government of Chiesanuova placed a monumental plaque in memory of the Srebrenica genocide. It is one of the first public monuments in Europe dedicated to those events.[14] That year he has been honoured at the Ambassador's Alley in Sarajevo.[15] Promoting dialogue among civilizations,[16] in 2019 he has realized the sculpture "Dialogue", the first ever monument of its kind devoted to interfaith dialogue.[17]
Embassy
The embassy of San Marino in Sarajevo is located in the building created by the Austro-Hungarian historian Hamdija Kreševljaković to whom is dedicated the homonym residential street.
Recognition
In 2011, he has been invited to enter the Ambassador's Alley in Sarajevo.[18] In 2023, the image of his sculpture "Dialogue" has been selected by the Sammarinese Minister of Foreign Affairs to worldwide celebrate the festivities 2023/224.
References
- ↑ "Ambasade u BiH".
- ↑ "Segreteria Esteri".
- ↑ "Michele Chiaruzzi — University of Bologna — Home Page".
- ↑ "Dottorato di ricerca… ‹ archivio didattica DSS ‹ archivio DSS ‹ Università degli Studi di San Marino".
- ↑ "TaekwondoData".
- ↑ "CIS former fellows".
- ↑ http://brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-090.html/Brown-University-Appoints-Richard-Holbrooke-as-Professor-at-Large
- ↑ "Clare Hall Life Member Dr Michele Chiaruzzi launches new book | Clare Hall".
- ↑ "Michele Chiaruzzi — University of Bologna — Home Page".
- ↑ "Soft power in the Gulf". 21 July 2018.
- ↑ Martin Wight, Political Philosophy and International Relations, D. Yost ed., (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022), p. 282.
- ↑ "Priča o ambasadoru i BiH: Sjećanje na Srebrenicu je temelj savremene Evrope".
- ↑ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Alhemija/Alkemija Balkana: Bosna i Hercegovina - 1. epizoda. YouTube.
- ↑ Anniversario dell'eccidio di Srebrenica, San Marino RTV
- ↑ "Sve više ambasadora izražava želju za sadnjom lipe u Aleji ambasadora".
- ↑ "UNRIC, UNICRI and the Republic of San Marino celebrate United Nations Day".
- ↑ "Kapela tri religije". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 16 October 2019.
- ↑ "Sve više ambasadora izražava želju za sadnjom lipe u Aleji ambasadora".