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Possibilities for academic community to assist participating OSCE States in defining new directions for the Organization in the so-called Helsinki+ 40 process was the topics of a panel discussion organized by the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions.

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) demands from the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to discover and punish those accountable for employement of 400 members of the Gendarmerie that were not submited to security checks.

New member of BCSP policy research team Dusan Radivojevic will be mostly engaged in the area of accountability and integrity in security sector.

The lecture in BCSP library gathered representatives from Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Security Information Agency, OSCE Mission to Serbia, political parties and civil society.

Monitoring and measuring progress in implementation UNSCR 1325 in Serbia was the subject of presentation held by BCSP researcher Maja Bjelos at the international conference „Enhancing the Women, Peace and Security Agenda in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Region" held in Almaty, Kazakhstan on 11. and 12. November 2013.

The capacity of Serbia to participate in the Western Balkans Battle Group were the subject of presentation of the BCSP researcher Marko Milosevic at the round table "Visegrad Four Experience from the Security Sector Reform: Security and Defence Cooperation of the Western Balkan countries" held on 28. October in hotel Bosnia in Sarajevo.

It is necessary to define exactly what are the activities in which members of the police should not be involved, and this area should be regulated by the new Law on Police, it was concluded during the panel discussion „Regulating the activities of police officers that conflict with their offical duties“, held on 7th November at the Library of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. "The first thing which ...

Guest researcher Esra Dogan, PHD candidate in Panteion University in Athens, will be a part of the BCSP team from September to November 2013.

The influence of military on Turkish politics and society was the subject of a lecture for researchers and interns of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy held by Esra Dogan, BCSP guest researcher.