The pre-event will be organized in five different panels: (1) Foreign and Security Policies in the Balkans; (2) Peace-Building and State-Building in the Western Balkans; (3) Balkan States and European Security Architecture; (4) SSR in the Balkans, and (5) Security Challenges in the Western Balkans. The presenters have various professional and educational backgrounds, for example, some of them are staff at military academies from the region, while others are PhD candidates from top world universities such are Oxford and Columbia.

They will be discussing a number of issues such are state weaknesses in the Balkans, regional energy security, the impact of the Turkish foreign policy in the Balkans. You can find the agenda at the http://www.belgradeforum.org/pre-event/agenda.html.

As there is a limited number of places in audience,  if you want to attend, please register ASAP at office@ccmr-bg.org. For more information please contact Mr. Filip Ejdus (ejdusf@yahoo.com).