Saša has experience in civil society networking, preparing training, and consultations. He coordinated the regional civil society POINTPULSE network from the Western Balkans and part of the team responsible for the training of 60 police officers in Serbia on action planning for community policing. He established cooperation with Anti-corruption Agency and Ombudsman in Serbia several times during alternative reporting on anti-corruption strategy and working on a study on secondary ...

Miroslav Hadžić was the president of the Board of Directors of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCBP) for many years and is one of the founders of the organization. He graduated from the Air Force Academy in Zadar in 1966. He also graduated from the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade in 1973, where he obtained his master's degree in 1979 and his doctorate in 1983. In the ...

Marija has been a member of the BCSP team since January 2019. She has worked for several years on cyber security and data protection, her primary areas of interest, and applies the knowledge she has acquired in here everyday tasks. Prior to joining the BCSP team, Marija worked at the Geneva Centre for Security Governance (DCAF) on the 2018 project, Enhancing Cybersecurity in the Western Balkans, including participation in ...

Marija Ignjatijević joined the BCSP team in 2016 as an intern with the desire to contribute to improving the transparency and accountability of security sector institutions and bringing security back from the sphere of high politics to citizens. Marija Ignjatijević has been a researcher at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy since September 2017. Marija focuses on defence issues in her research, monitors the work of the Ministry of ...

Olivia Lazard is a fellow at Carnegie Europe. Her research focuses on the geopolitics of climate, the transition ushered by climate change, and the risks of conflict and fragility associated to climate change and environmental collapse. Olivia is an environmental peacemaking and mediation practitioner as well as a researcher. She has over twelve years of experience in the peacemaking sector at field and policy levels. With an original specialization ...

Dr Marta Martinelli is CIVIC’s Senior Director of Programs. She oversees quality and impact; adaptation and responsiveness, including to emerging protection risks and opportunities; and the expansion of CIVIC’s programs to reach more civilians in more conflict theatres. Prior to joining CIVIC, she has held several positions at the Open Society European Policy Institute, including as deputy director and head of the External Policy team. She has served the ...

Oana Popescu-Zamfir is the director and founder of GlobalFocus Center, an independent foreign policy and security think-tank. She is a Europe’s Futures fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna (IWM), as well as an associate researcher with the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) and a fellow of the Agora Strategy Institute. Oana was state secretary for EU Affairs in the Romanian government and foreign policy adviser ...