Samir Beharić is an award-winning youth activist from Bosnia and Herzegovina and a PhD-candidate at the University of Bamberg. His human rights activism was recognised by the OSCE honouring him with the Max van der Stoel Award in recognition of his efforts in the prevention of further ethnic segregation of schools in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Beharić has been engaged in environmental activism related to preventing investors from building small hydro power plants in central Bosnia.