The Belgrade Center for Security Policy once again calls on the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to stop political attacks on citizens' associations and to start acting as an institution that is in service of the citizens, and to finally agree on public dialogue for systemic responses to the problems in police work. A press release was published on December 26, 2017 on the MoI's website, in which the BCSP ...

{image1} New amendments to the Law on the police do not define clearly which jobs are incompatible with the police profession or which could cause the conflict of interest, which may negatively reflect on citizens’ security. These are the conclusions of the presentation of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy’s (BCSP) study, held on December the 12th, in Media Center Belgrade. The question of the occupations incompatible with the police ...

{image1} Democratic institutions and the rule of law have been endangered throughout Europe, and the polarization of societies has made it difficult to oversee the security sector. This was emphasized during the third panel of the conference organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on the 20th anniversary celebration, on 28 November 2017 in Dorcol Platz. The third panel conference was dedicated to exacerbating democratic control of ...

{image1} Threats to the Western Balkans communities are coming from within and the external actors are used only to intimidate voters, so the role of the civil society organizations is to combat these narratives with knowledge. Those are the conclusions of the second panel of the conference organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) on the celebration of 20TH anniversary, on the November 28th in Dorcol Platz. ...

Independent judiciary and public prosecution are necessary preconditions for ensuring the good conduct of the security sector and the rule of law, is the main conclusion of the expert consultations organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) at the Hotel Ziraon October 3, 2017. The consultations were organized in order to draft proposals for amendments to the Constitution on the judiciary, that would directly or indirectly improve the ...

The Western Balkans police forces must communicate much more effectively with citizens in order to increase the level of trust and confidence in their work; they also need to adapt the methods and channels of communication to the target groups. This is especially important when it comes to younger generations who, as a rule, have much a more negative perception of the institutions than the older population.

BCSP research team offers recommendations for the improvement of informing citizens on European integration and points out that the existing approach prevents the interested public from following the process of accession negotiations, analyzes, proposes and evaluates been done in the area of EU integration.

The latest Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) working study summarizes the key findings of a survey on relations towards major powers and their influence on Serbia and Serbia’s foreign policy. The research was conducted from 26 December 2016 until 14 January 2017 on reprezentative sample of 1,403 adult citizens of Serbia (excluding Kosovo).

State of the rule of law in Serbia and it’s impact on the business community were the main topics of the meeting between the Commissioner for EU Enlargement Johannes Hahn and the representatives of civil society and the business sector held on 8 June 2017 at the premises of the EU Delegation to Serbia. The director of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy Sonja Stojanovic Gajic has emphasised during ...