Why are some communities more likely to experience violent extremism than others is one of the core questions of the PREVEX project, in which the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) is one of the partners. Participants gathered for the project kick-off at Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) in Brussels, on 3-4 February 2020.

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 ...

Continuous education and the active role of institutions are effective ways of combating extremism, it was emphasized at the MAN 2019 conference dedicated to the understanding and prevention of extremism in which the Executive Director of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) Predrag Petrovic participated on 14 June 2019 in Belgrade. BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic talked about the shortcomings of the education system and the lack of ...

Successful fight against interference of politics in the work of the police will lead to more tangible results in the fight against organized crime, it was highlighted at the panel on Chapter 24 of EU negotiations organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) within the Seventh Plenary Session of the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) on 10 June 2019 in Belgrade. The European Commission's highest ...

Spread of extremism in Western Balkans should be addressed by long-term measures aimed at root causes such as inequality, political corruption and foreign influence, it was highlighted at the presentation of main findings of the Western Balkans Extremism Research Forum Regional Report held on 29 January 2019 in London. BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic presented findings of the Serbia Report that examined drivers of radicalisation and violent extremism in Serbia ...

Illegal weapons accumulated in the hands of Western Balkans citizens is a serious security threat. A roadmap was adopted to combat the illegal possession, misuse and trafficking of small arms and light weapons.

The Serbia Report written by BCSP Executive Director Predrag Petrovic and BCSP Researcher Isidora Stakic examines drivers of radicalisation and violent extremism in the Western Balkans as a part of The Extremism Research Forum. The research commenced in 2017, exploring a range of themes and topics with key stakeholders within communities, civil society and government, in order to build a coherent picture of the specific situation in each country. ...

Report examines how the Western Balkans has emerged once again as a potentially volatile geopolitical arena, and analyses the drivers underpinning both fragility and resilience in the countries of the region from a variety of perspectives.

Extreme right-wingers consider that the number of reported incidents involving migrants is deliberately diminished, see the positive representation of migrants as a form of repression and their activism is manifested mainly on the Internet, are the preliminary conclusions of the research presented by the researcher fellow Marina Lazetic to the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) team on July 28, 2017. As a research fellow, she was engaged with ...