PRESS RELEASES

On November 12th, the Center for Civil-Military Relations hosted the Belgrade Attaché Association. The purpose of this visit was to introduce Defense Attaches from 18 countries with the Center’s current and planned activities along with its staff and Research Fellows. The event was a good opportunity for Defense Attaches to gain a firsthand look at the work of the Center and the Belgrade School of Security Studies. The participants ...

Representatives of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations and RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation, Professor Miroslav Hadzic and Ambassador Hadzimusic have signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Friday, November 21. RACVIAC, founded in 2000 as the Regional Arms Control Verification and Implementation Assistance Centre, was originally a project under the Working Table III of  Stability Pact for SEE. Primary purpose of RACVIAC was to provide arms control training, promote confidence and security building measures and broaden ...

Presentation of the publication “Lessons Learned: Serbia and Slovakia in the processes of security sector reform and Euro Atlantic Integration”, co-organized by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade, and Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs, Bratislava, was presented on Monday, December 15th, in the Library of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations. Deputy Chief of Mission of Slovak Republic to Serbia, Jan Psenica and Mihajlo Basara, Director of the MoD ...

Delegation of NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) led by the Chairman of the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security Michael Clapham (United Kingdom) and the representatives of the Sub-Committee on Future Security and Defence Capabilities visited the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Monday, April 21. The discussion on the achievements of the defence reform in Serbia which was hosted by the Centre, presented a part of the official PA Delegation ...

Today in the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs (NUPI), Sonja Stojanovic, the CCMR director and Zorana Atanosovic, BSSS Research Fellow delivered presentation on the development of CCMR and its project Mapping and Monitoring of Security Sector.  In informal atmosphere, Sonja and Zorana discussed with the colleagues from NUPI about challenges of measuring progress in security sector reform. They gained valuable feedback by the NUPI researchers specializing in political science, ...

A selected group of government officials, coming from Security Policy Departments of the Ministries of Defence of the Nordic and Baltic countries visited Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Thursday, May 29. Their visit was organised by Royal Norwegian Embassy in Serbia. As it was said during the introductory remarks, by visiting Serbia, members of the delegation were looking for insights which could help them influence their decision makers. The task of introducing ...

Finland's Ambassador in the BCSP

Public debate “Security sector reform as a precondition to EU membership - role and possible contribution of civil society“ was held at the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Tuesday, July 15. Tanja Miščević, Director of the Government of Serbia’s European Integration Office (SEIO), Zoran Jeftić, State Secretary of Defence, representatives of international organisations and civil society organisations which are interested in the matters of security policy was all present ...

Representatives of Serbia’s state institutions - ombudsman Saša Janković, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Šabić, Ministry of Internal Affairs Bojana Panić, experts in the matter of biometric technologies - Ninoslav Janjić (WLS Electronic), Ratimir Drakulić of the Faculty of organisational sciences, Oliver Subotić of Serbian Orthodox Church - as well as civil society organisations’ (CSO) representatives, Dejan Milenković of YUCOM and Aleksandar Pavić of "Za život bez žiga" („For a life without a ...

The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the Centre for Civil Military Relations - Belgrade (CCMR) will join forces in 2007 - 2008 to gather young and prospective opinion leaders from South Eastern Europe. Two training workshops, the first one in Geneva in October 2007 and the second one in Belgrade in the beginning of 2008, will be primarily focused on the importance of ...

Žarko Puhovski, Professor at the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Zagreb), visited the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 and held a lecture on the reach of European Union’s normative power. In his presentation, Puhovski analysed the deficit of democracy in the European Union, but also the crisis of its legitimacy, caused by the unclear conduct of the accession criteria, regarding to the last round of ...

On the basis of agreement on cooperation with the Military Academy of Serbia, two students of Serbian Armed Forces' Command Staff training within the School of National Defence will spend six months in the Centre as associate experts.