Promoting cooperation and responsible conduct in the field of defense and security in the member states of the OSCE was the aim of the three-day workshop held in Belgrade to mark 20 years since the adoption of the OSCE Code of Conduct on Politico-Military Aspects of Security (OSCE CoC).

The Building Integrity Conference on Institution Building which took place in Oslo from March 3 to March 6, 2014, gathered more than 60 participants from 19 countries to discuss on development and implementation of integrity plans within the defense sector.

EU integrations, police reform and cross-border cooperation were the topics that raised most questions during the discussion held at Belgrade Centre for Security Policy on 13 March 2014.

BCSP activities in 2013 were highlighted by contributions to the systematic fight against corruption within police, military and security services, advancement of gender equality in security sector, opening of the dialogue on future of Serbian-Albanian relations and beginning of the independent monitoring of Serbia’s progress in chapters 23 and 24 of the EU negotiating process.

Capacity of Serbia to participate in peacekeeping missions, gender equality in the security sector, as well as writing for Website and preparing for public appearance were the topics of the third seminar for the fourteenth generation of interns held on 16 December in the BCSP library.

Reasons for joining a civil society organisation, importance of building relationships and the effects of networking were the topics of a presentation held by BCSP Communications Officer Radomir Cvetkovic at the 24th Belgrade Ignite.

New member of BCSP policy research team Dusan Radivojevic will be mostly engaged in the area of accountability and integrity in security sector.

The capacity of Serbia to participate in the Western Balkans Battle Group were the subject of presentation of the BCSP researcher Marko Milosevic at the round table "Visegrad Four Experience from the Security Sector Reform: Security and Defence Cooperation of the Western Balkan countries" held on 28. October in hotel Bosnia in Sarajevo.

It is necessary to define exactly what are the activities in which members of the police should not be involved, and this area should be regulated by the new Law on Police, it was concluded during the panel discussion „Regulating the activities of police officers that conflict with their offical duties“, held on 7th November at the Library of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. "The first thing which ...