PRESS RELEASES

The war against Ukraine and Ukraine's application for EU membership changed the way the EU looks at the Western Balkans and enlargement process, it is concluded during the discussion at the Munich Security Conference, co-organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

At the annual meeting of the Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection, held on February 3, 2023, in Sarajevo, the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy became a member of this network.

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy invites you to apply to the program called ''Conflict transformation through empathetic peace education''. The program will strive to bring students from Serbia and Kosovo closer together through education, empathy, and role-playing with the aim of providing a deeper understanding of the process of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

In the previous year, we faced serious challenges, achieved significant success and experienced a great loss.

During the session held on December 14, 2022, the Assembly of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) elected Gorana Radovanović as the new President of the BCSP Executive Board, while Luka Glušac was elected as the new Vice-president of the BCSP Executive Board.

Half of the population in Serbia see Russia as the main foreign policy partner and 2/3 have positive attitudes towards Russia, while the main source of the radical pro-Russian narrative is pro-government media with their narratives that are transported to the public. That was pointed out during the panel discussion BCSP organized on December 14.

Tolerance, listening to different voices, interaction, dialogue, and mutual understanding. These are keywords that can summarize the first Regional Peacebuilding Academy, BCSP organized from December 4 to December 10 in Podgorica. During the five days, around 60 youth leaders with different backgrounds - politics, civil society, sports, arts, academia, and business, from Serbia, Kosovo, and Bosnia and Herzegovina engaged in a series of activities in order to drive change and move toward reconciliation in the Western Balkans and to establish a regional youth network.

Civil society organisations from Kosovo and Serbia have expressed their support for Miodrag Milićević from NGO Aktiv, who was verbally and physically assaulted by a member of Kosovo Police special units in the vicinity of the Jarinje crossing in north Kosovo.

The Belgrade Security Conference (BSC) under the title “Authoritarianism as a Cause of War and a Duty to Resist”, organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, was held in Hyatt Regency Hotel in Belgrade on October 27-28. During the two days and 16 panels, the conference brought together more than 400 in person participants and over 80 speakers from more than 20 countries.

Are you passionate about your work and about making your community a better place? Do you have an interest in looking at the world from different perspectives – from the view of politics, of business, of journalism, of art – in order to better understand why the world is as it is and how different perspectives can be helpful in finding solutions for things that need to be changed? Do you enjoy meeting new people and collaborating with others who share your commitment to make the world a better place? If so, we invite you to apply to join the REGIONAL YOUTH PARTNERSHIP program!

Dear friends and partners, our colleague Marija Pavlović tragically lost her life at the age of 34 in a traffic accident.

The topic of this meeting was reporting and discussion on the results of the implementation of the revised Action Plan for Chapter 24. Additionally, both progresses achieved in Chapter 24 and the work on the Draft Law on Internal Affairs were presented. The continuation of the dialogue of the Working Group for Chapter 24 of the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU), which is coordinated by BCSP and the Negotiating Group for Chapter 24, which is coordinated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MUP), is planned, including regarding the text of the Draft from the point of view of reaching the transitional criteria in this chapter.