{image1} The security system should be an integral part of the Constitution because the security of the state and citizens is a public good. This creates a barrier for potential misuse by political decision makers, it was concluded at the discussion organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) on February 13, 2018 in Media Center in Belgrade. {image2} The security system in Serbia’s Constitution is modestly regulated, ...

{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 ...

Participants concluded that it seems like legal solutions are adopted taking into account international conventions, in order to demonstrate democratic progress and development to the international community, however, adopted solutions are rarely implemented in practice.

This publication aims to provide an independent research-supported overview on the key achievements and weaknesses in the accountability of security sectors of Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Kosovo, and to present what effect this has on the countries’ democratic transition.

The police in Serbia has come a long way since 2001 and new democratic foun-dations have been laid upon which the police can fulfil their duty to serve the country’s citizens. There have been four crucial changes.

Since it emerged from the donor and academic communities in the 1990s, the concept of Security Sector Reform (SSR) has been through numerous transformations. SSR can be defined as "the process through which security sector actors adapt to the political and organizational demands of transformation." The aim of SSR is "the efficient and effective provision of state and human security within a framework of democratic governance."

A Collection of Essays presented at the round table organised in partnership with Government of the Czech Republic and Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces, October 30-31, 2006

At the NATO Summit held in Prague in 2002, seven new members from the "Vilnius Group" have been welcomed into the Alliance membership - Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Slovakia, Romania, Bulgaria and Slovenia. The presidents of the remaining countries from this group - Stipe Mesić from Croatia, Alfred Moisiu from Albania and Boris Trajkovski from Macedonia, promoted the idea of starting a new mechanism for the cooperation among their countries ...