BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic, through specific examples, analysed how BIA’s powers were misused to pressure and combat critical voices.

Public warning to the State Prosecutorial Council, the Republic Public Prosecutor and the High Judicial Council

Documenting and deconstructing the ongoing process of state capture in the security sector in Serbia is the main goal of the project that BCSP is implementing.

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 ...

BCSP Researcher Jelena Pejic writes about how implementing the so called "Priebe report" in every country of the Western Balkans would contribute to the fight against state capture.

"You will be destroyed from the first to the last" reads the threateningletter that arrived at the address of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on February 13th 2019. Similar letter was received by other civil society organizations. The BCSP reported threats to the police and will file a criminal complaint against the sender. We expect reaction in accordance with the law from the institutions in the coming ...

In Serbia, there is a gap between law and practice, uncontrolled government seeks to diminish citizens' rights, and public attention is being drawn to unimportant issues. The way to slow down the state capture process is to strengthen institutions and networking, it was highlighted at the event organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on June 29, 2018 in Belgrade. Captured state as a term is increasingly ...

The Draft National Security Strategy of Serbia points to the erosion of democratic civilian control over the security system and further state capture, and the state-centric approach to security threats ignores the needs of citizens, it was highlighted at the event organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) as a contribution to the public debate on the Draft National Security Strategy and Draft Defense Strategy on May ...