ACTIVITIES

This January, draft Law on Detectives prepared by the MoI was sent to the National Assembly in order to be adopted under urgent procedure. After BCSP warned how, by its adoption, rights guaranteed by the Constitution may be endangered, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, Rodoljub Sabic, asked for this draft Law to be withdrawn from procedure. The problem is this draft stands in contradiction to the Law on Protection of Personal ...

Serbia has adopted its Strategy for Managing Migrations in 2009, yet in order for it to be implemented more efficiently, more active monitoring and increased advocacy is necessary.

In order to achieve more efficiency and quality in achieving gender equality, the institution of Ombudsperson has established an expert advisory body Council for Gender Equality, and the BCSP Director Sonja Stojanović was elected as one of the six members. Domestic violence is still widely socially tolerated and lacks an adequate reaction by state bodies. Visible daily is the disproportionate representation in places where political decisions are made, as well as stereotypical and often insulting representation ...

Recently, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) was listed among the best think tanks in the world by the 2010 Global Go To Think Tank Rankings.

Belgrade School of Security Studies is a special division of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations set up to carry out systematic research and promote academic advancement of young researchers thus contributing to the development of security studies in Serbia (SCG). Due to the departure of the researcher to the postgraduate studies in London, the School has launched a supplemental competition for the admission of one researcher to the Belgrade School ...

At Belgrade’s Faculty of Political Sciences, on November 21, 2007, in the presence of Ambassador of Kingdom of Norway Haakon Blankenborg, Assistant Minister of Defence for Defence Policy Dušan Spasojević, representative of the OSCE Mission in Serbia Vladimir Bilandžić, representatives of state institutions, students and journalists, MA Studies in International Security were officially opened. Jelena Đorđević, in charge of the MA and PhD studies at the Faculty, ambassador Blankenborg ...

Together with its partner organizations the BCSP will present results of "People’s Peacemaking Perspective" project to the European Parliament, DG Enlargement and European External Action Service. The results will be also presented to the representatives of think-tank organizations in Brussels.

There has been significant progress regarding security sector reform in the region, but there are still many challenges, such as: politicization, criminalization and not enough civilian control in practice - these are the conclusions of the round table that promoted "Almanac on Security Oversight in the Western Balkans".

On February 9th, Natasa Dragojlovic, expert of the European Movement in Serbia presented the historical development and institutional framework of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). As the defining moments in development of CFSP, Natasa singled out the adoption of Single European Act, Maastricht Treaty and Amsterdam Treaty. Natasa's opening claim how EU presents the "most sucessful peace project in Europe's history" was not disputed, however, many of the ...