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 ...

The latest BCSP working study summarizes the key findings of a survey on national security and responses to security threats. The research was conducted from 26 December 2016 until 14 January 2017 on reprezentative sample of 1,403 adult citizens of Serbia (excluding Kosovo).

In recent years, there has been a change of actors involved in terrorist activities due to the consequences of globalization, while the main goal of terrorist activities - spreading the fear - remained the same.

Repressive governments’ policies towards conservative Muslims lead to their extremisations, was the conclusion based on the report authored by Shpend Kursani from the Kosovar Centre for Security Studies(KCSS) , which was presented today in Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).

Laura Garavini, MP of the Italian Parliament and the founder of the initiative "Mafia? Nein, danke!" and Riccardo Guido, advisor to the Anti-mafia Parliamentary Committee in the Italian Parliament, were panellists at the discussion Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) organized with the support of the OSCE Mission to Serbia.