PRESS RELEASES

In the year behind us, we faced great challenges on the road to building a safe and free society.

We, the signatories of this press release, alert to the impermissible violations of the human rights of all of Serbia’s citizens which characterised the entire election process since 1 November 2023, when the early parliamentary and local elections were called and the ensuing activities of the Republican Election Commission and the Belgrade City Election Commission, and which culminated on election day, 17 December 2023.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy and the Centre for International Security organized a seminar on feminist foreign policy on the 11th of October 2023 at the Faculty of Political Sciences. 

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy became one of 106 civil society organisations and activists who signed an open letter for the protection of whistleblowers on December 7th, which was addressed to all member states of the United Nations Convention Against Corruption.

The National Convention on the European Union condemns the malicious and organised tabloid campaign to which the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), Igor Bandović, and Bojan Elek, director and deputy director of this organisation, are exposed.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy categorically rejects and denies the falsehoods that were first published on the internet portal "Alo" on Saturday, October 21st, 2023, and then picked up by other pro-government media. This is a dirty campaign with the aim of discrediting the organisation and its executives, and the BCSP will seek protection in court proceedings.

Serbia and the Western Balkans are yet again at a crossroads. The time has come either to achieve long-term peace and prosperity through the EU integration process or to once again plunge into a deadly spiral of autocracy and conflict. The normalisation of relations between Belgrade and Pristina and the resolution of all outstanding disputes in the region will not be possible without state de-capture and full renewal of democracy in Serbia. 

We proudly announce that during the first day of the Belgrade Security Conference BSC 2023, the inaugural "Lighthouse" award ceremony took place at the Hotel Hyatt. 

The Belgrade Security Conference BSC 2023 is officially open!

September School under the title "Russia's Soft Power in Serbia and the Balkans: Busting Myths and Confronting Facts", organised by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy in partnership with the Federal Agency for Civic Education (BPB), was held at the hotel Fruške Terme from 20-24 September.

The network of associations of citizens, journalists, and media standing up against violence strongly condemns the decision of the authorities in Serbia to prevent Jovana Marović, an activist and former deputy Prime Minister of Montenegro and Minister of European Affairs, from entering Serbia at the Nikola Tesla airport on August 23, 2023.

The Network of Citizens, Journalists, and Media Organizations, fervently urge you to direct your attention to a deeply disconcerting incident in Serbia. Ms. Sofija Todorovic, Programme Director of the Youth Initiative for Human Rights (YIHR), was deliberately targeted in an alarming attempt to intimidate and undermine the fundamental rights of civil society activists. This act not only dehumanizes our defenders of liberty but ominously heralds potential harassment and threats they may face in the future.