On 9 April, only five days after the 60th Summit of Heads of State and Governments of NATO member states, the Centre for Civil-Military Relations organised a discussion about the outcomes of the Summit held in Strasbourg and Kehl. The introductory presentations were given on behalf of the NATO contact point embassy in Belgrade - by Mr. Jan Vlkovsky, Political Officer in the Czech Embassy, on behalf of the ...

Jelena Radoman, Advocacy Coordinator, delivered a lecture on security sector reform (SSR) in Serbia at the Security Sector School for Journalists in Prishtina. The lecture was focused on process of reform of security sector in Serbia from the 2000 up to present. Beside Serbia’s case study of SSR, participants had a chance to learn more about SSR in Albania and Macedonia. The lectures for the case studies were delivered ...

Research Associate of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), Marko Savkovic, participated in the 2009 NATO-Ukraine Partnership Network Planning Conference entitled "Civil Society Involvement in Security Sector Reform: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for a Way Forward". Marko spoke on recent experiences related to policy making process in Serbia and summarized the findings of CCMR's strategic project, "Mapping and Monitoring of the Security Sector Reform in Serbia". The planning conference ...

Presentation of the publication “Lessons Learned: Serbia and Slovakia in the processes of security sector reform and Euro Atlantic Integration”, co-organized by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade, and Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs, Bratislava, was presented on Monday, December 15th, in the Library of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations. Deputy Chief of Mission of Slovak Republic to Serbia, Jan Psenica and Mihajlo Basara, Director of the MoD ...

Public debate “Security sector reform as a precondition to EU membership - role and possible contribution of civil society“ was held at the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Tuesday, July 15. Tanja Miščević, Director of the Government of Serbia’s European Integration Office (SEIO), Zoran Jeftić, State Secretary of Defence, representatives of international organisations and civil society organisations which are interested in the matters of security policy was all present ...

A selected group of government officials, coming from Security Policy Departments of the Ministries of Defence of the Nordic and Baltic countries visited Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Thursday, May 29. Their visit was organised by Royal Norwegian Embassy in Serbia. As it was said during the introductory remarks, by visiting Serbia, members of the delegation were looking for insights which could help them influence their decision makers. The task of introducing ...

Worldwide, the security sector is dominated by men, and Serbia is no exception to this.

With the support of OSCE Mission in Serbia, Centre for Civil-Military Relations has undertaken an field research within the scope of the project „Private Security Companies (PSC) in Serbia - A Friend or Foe?“. This is the first empirical research of its kind ever taken in Serbia. The general motivation behind research efforts was the existing lack of any law(s) defining the work of PSC in Serbia has been. ...

On the basis of agreement on cooperation with the Military Academy of Serbia, two students of Serbian Armed Forces' Command Staff training within the School of National Defence will spend six months in the Centre as associate experts.