BCSP continues to contribute to the professional development of youth

The interns talked about the security sector reform with the President of the BCSP Steering Committee and Professor of the Faculty of Political Sciences Filip Ejdus, as well as a retired professor and one of the founders of the BCSP, Miroslav Hadzic.

Through an interactive discussion, they heard more about the very concept of security sector reform, the dimensions it encompasses, and the actors involved in the reform. Also, the topic of discussion was the context of security sector reform, as well as various factors that may affect the course of reform.

After the introduction to the security sector reform, the students talked with BCSP researchers, Marija Pavlović and Bojan Elek, about the basics of cybersecurity and public policy research. BCSP junior researcher Marija Pavlović presented the basics of cybersecurity, and then discussed with students the most common threats that can happen in cyberspace. Through practical examples, students had the opportunity to learn how to recognize the most common types of cyberattacks and learn ways to protect themselves from them.

At the final sessions, BCSP researcher Bojan Elek introduced the intern to the concept of public policies and how they can be researched. Through an interactive exercise, the interns gained insight into how to identify a problem, create a research question, and make a research plan.

“Through the BCSP workshops, I have expanded my methodological framework, which will be of great help to me in studying certain problems in our society. The workshops were designed so that the interns were allowed to express their opinion on various topics. that a huge advantage “, said Bogdan Milivojević, the BCSP intern.

The workshop was held within the project “Empowering Youth to Promote Security Sector Reform”, which the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy is implementing with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia.