During the first lecture in the BCSP series "Champions of diversity" Australian Ambassador to Serbia Helen Studdert spoke about the challenges which women and men were facing in the Australian Army during the adoption and implementation of policies directed towards improving position of women in the military.

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.

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 ...