PRESS RELEASES

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.

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy is pleased to invite you to submit papers for Academic Event, which will take place during the Belgrade Security Conference (October 27-28, 2022).

In connection to yesterday’s announcement in which it was declared that six migrants were arrested (among them two people suspected of having committed criminal acts) in an operation aimed at suppressing criminal activity and felonies committed by migrants and in connection to a statement given by the minister Vulin that not one smuggling gang will pass, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy and the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights – YUCOM, demand that the Prosecutor’s office for organized crime, during the processing of human smuggling perpetrators, seriously investigate all the information about the connection between senior officials in the Ministry of Interior and the smugglers.

In order to be credible and overcome state capture in the region, the European Union needs to start making decisions on the Western Balkans, to engage more with citizens and internal democratization drivers, and regional actors should have a say in EU-wide debates, it was concluded at the conference “The Lighthouse of a Better Balkans – The first 25 years of the BCSP” held on 27 June at the Metropol Palace Hotel in Belgrade. During the conference organized on the occasion of its 25th anniversary, BCSP formed an International Advisory Committee and presented its members.