PRESS RELEASES

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 ...

"School for European Security" was continued on June 27 and 28 with the planned simulation of decision making in the Council of the EU. It was the first simulation of its kind in Serbia, focusing on problems rising in the second pillar of the EU - its common foreign and security policy. Students of CCMR's School for European Security and "Diplomacy in Practice" programme organised by European Movement in Serbia ...

Three Research Associates of CCMR participated in the seminar “Dynamics of Collective Security: NATO in the 21st Century” that was organised by TransConflict Serbia (www.transconflict.com) and Youth Dialogue Programme (www.ydprogramme.org), on July 25 and 26, 2009 at Fruška Gora. Seminar gathered civil society activists and young professionals from different backgrounds, to broaden the debate on the relationship between Serbia and NATO. Marko Savković opened the floor with the presentation ...

Study visit to security institutions in Pozarevac that BCSP organized for journalists received wide media publicity, which was followed with numerous media appearances on current security issues.

Research Associate of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), Marko Savkovic, participated in the 2009 NATO-Ukraine Partnership Network Planning Conference entitled "Civil Society Involvement in Security Sector Reform: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for a Way Forward". Marko spoke on recent experiences related to policy making process in Serbia and summarized the findings of CCMR's strategic project, "Mapping and Monitoring of the Security Sector Reform in Serbia". The planning conference ...

Jelena Radoman, Advocacy Coordinator, delivered a lecture on security sector reform (SSR) in Serbia at the Security Sector School for Journalists in Prishtina. The lecture was focused on process of reform of security sector in Serbia from the 2000 up to present. Beside Serbia’s case study of SSR, participants had a chance to learn more about SSR in Albania and Macedonia. The lectures for the case studies were delivered ...

Centre for Civil-Military Relations wishes to inform civil society organizations, members of the academic community and public in general that the initiative to extend the deadline for public discussion on the draft National Security Strategy and Strategy of Defense has been accepted by Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac. Public debate will now be closed at January 31, 2009. In the response of the Ministry, signed by the Director of the ...