{image1} Radicalization, corruption, migration, organized crime, the Belgrade-Pristina conflict and state capture are the biggest challenges in the Western Balkans - this is one of the conclusions of the first "International Balkans Session" organized by the Institute for Higher National Defence Studies from France, which was held from 1 to 11 May 2019 in Paris. Participants from the countries of Southeastern Europe, including BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic, gathered ...

{image1} By „researching“ Serbia's participation in the virtual peacekeeping mission, the BCSP provided its contribution to the multinational exercise Viking 18, which was held  16-26. April 2018. The focus of the exercise was on a comprehensive approach to peacebuilding and crisis management, which involves the cooperation of all relevant civil and military actors. Researchers Katarina Djokic, Marija Ignjatijevic and Jelena Pejic represented BCSP at the international exercise, which was ...

Journalists from six national and seven local and regional media participated in the training organized by Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) held on April 24-25, aiming to teach them how to do research on corruption in police, military and security services

During their work at the Kosovar Center for Security Studies, BCSP researchers Maja Bjelos and Bojan Elek have conducted more than 20 interviews, as a part of their field work on the integration of Serbian police officers from Northern Kosovo into the Kosovo police. Besides that, as guest researchers they also participated at several public events and media appearances.

General oversight mechanisms in Serbia and the need for internal and external oversight mechanisms for the police in specific were the topics on which BCSP researcher Maja Bjelos spoke at a side event during the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Human Dimension Implementation Meeting (HDIM), held on 24 September.

Peacekeeping operation are in the nexus of modern civil-military cooperation, and will continue to present a test for the ability of the armed forces, their level of training and interoperability - these were conclusions of the roundtable "Future of (Serbia’s) Security Integration: Cooperation in Defence and Peacekeeping," that BCSP Researcher Marko Savkovic participated in.

Representatives of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) participated in the conference "Serbia and Albania: Do Perceptions Equal Reality?" which took place in Tirana, on May 23 and 24, and which was organised as part of the project that BCSP implements in partnership with the Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS).