Rabbi Schneier has led 68 interfaith missions in China , Russia , Eastern Europe and Latin America . In 1992 , he convened the Religious Summit on the Former Yugoslavia in Switzerland , and in 1995 , he convened the Conflict Resolution Conference in Vienna to mobilize world religious leaders to stop the conflict in the Balkans . For more than 20 years , Rabbi Schneier worked closely with Grand Mufti Ceric of Bosnia and Herzegovina . In 1992 , they gathered together some of the top religious leaders from former Yugoslavia in Bern , Switzerland , including Cardinal Vinko Puljic , Archbishop of Sarajevo , formally of Zagreb , Patriarch Pavle of the Serbian Orthodox Church and Grand Mufti Jakub efendi Selimoski of Sarajevo to call for an end to the conflict . What emerged was Erklärung von Bern in which they declared that " a crime in the name of religion is the greatest crime against religion . " These efforts helped to forge a pathway to the Dayton Accord . In 2012 , Rabbi Schneier helped commemorate the Srebrenica massacre that occurred during the breakup of Yugoslavia by delivering the keynote address at the 17th annual Srebrenica memorial . He is thus far the only non-Muslim to do so . During his address , Rabbi Schneier delivered a message from U.S. president Barack Obama
Srebrenica massacre
Srebrenica massacre
Arthur Schneier