ACTIVITIES

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 ...

Miroslav Hadžić, president of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations Managerial Board, presented on Monday, February 23 a lecture within the programme "School for European Security" entitled "The Reach of Euro Atlantic Interventionism". He opened his lecture discussing the contents and meaning of the very notion of terms, interventionismand crisis. The concept of crisis management makes for the birth-place of interventionism, believes Hadzic. "Crisis management", by the way, "is not always the part of the solution, but is however, part of the problem". As ...

On 9 April, only five days after the 60th Summit of Heads of State and Governments of NATO member states, the Centre for Civil-Military Relations organised a discussion about the outcomes of the Summit held in Strasbourg and Kehl. The introductory presentations were given on behalf of the NATO contact point embassy in Belgrade - by Mr. Jan Vlkovsky, Political Officer in the Czech Embassy, on behalf of the ...

Antonio Missiroli, director of studies in the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) presented a lecture on the European Security Strategy (ESS), observed six years later, in a changed international context. The issue has, however, served only as a point of departure for further discussion of EU’s role in the world today. Mr. Missiroli's lecture was organised within the educational project "School for European Security". Centre’s guest began by analysing ...