Threats and pressures on activists and independent journalists, experience with state authorities, protection measures and necessary help are the topics of the newest case study by BCSP.

Civil society and investigative journalists have an important role in monitoring and preventing organized crime and demanding accountability for convicting members of organized criminal groups, but they need a support network to do that, it was highlighted at the discussion Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GITOC) and Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) organized on 14 June 2019 in Belgrade. The recently published report “Hotspots of organized crime ...

Successful fight against interference of politics in the work of the police will lead to more tangible results in the fight against organized crime, it was highlighted at the panel on Chapter 24 of EU negotiations organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) within the Seventh Plenary Session of the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) on 10 June 2019 in Belgrade. The European Commission's highest ...

Deepening knowledge and exchange of views on the role that NATO should have in Serbia and the Western Balkans marked the study visit by the research team of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and journalists to the Allied Joint Force Command Naples - NATO (JFC Naples), which the BCSP organized on 30 January - 1 February 2019. The visit enabled close cooperation between researchers with expertise in ...

Good communication of the police through media and social networks contributes to greater confidence in the police, which means that citizens will inform police officers, and not tabloids when they see a security-threatening situation on the street, it was highlighted at the event dedicated to police communication that Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) organized on June 14, 2018 in Belgrade. Insufficient transparency of the police, leaks or placement ...

{image1} Relations between Serbia and NATO, media freedom and building of democratic culture were the main subjects of the meeting of Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly, held in the BCSP library on June 14, 2017. Delegation was led by Dutch senator Menno Knip, Chairmen of the Sub-Committee on Transition and Development of the Economics and Security Committee of NATO’s Parliamentary Assembly. Members of delegation ...

Journalists from the European Union member states are interested in the results of the fight against corruption, pressures on media and election process irregularities in Serbia. These were the main topic of discussion between the representatives of civil society from Serbia and journalists from eleven EU member states, held in Media Centre Belgrade on April 25. The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) Researcher and Coordinator of the regional ...

Diminished integrity of the Police is trampling on the relations with the media and is preventing proper informing of the public, this is the conclusion of the third panel from the Conference “Security Challenges as a Link between the Citizens and Institutions”, organized by the POINTPULSE on the 21 of December 2016, in the Mikser House. “Police integrity has weakened and this is clearly shown in the newest police integrity ...

Study visit to security institutions in Pozarevac that BCSP organized for journalists received wide media publicity, which was followed with numerous media appearances on current security issues.