CONFLICT PREVENTION

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) supported the countries of the Western Balkans in the "building civil capacity to participate in peacekeeping operations", in the period from 2013 to 2016. In cooperation with the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and regional network of experts of civil society organizations which in addition to the BCSP (Serbia), consists of the Institute for Democracy and Mediation (Albania), Centre for Security Studies ...

On the 27th of April 2016. in the Guard Palace of Topcider barracks in Belgrade, the expert disscussion „Participation of the Army of Serbia in multinatoonal operations-Experience and Perspectives“ was held and it was pointed out that  Republic of Serbia  has had long term experience in participation in UN missions and since present time in EU and that there are plans for increment in participation of the Army of ...

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy organized on October 21st 2014 a presentation of findings from regional maping study on civil capacities for peacekeeping missions.  BCSP researcher Marko Milosevic and Gordan Bosanac from the Center for Peace Studies from Croatia presented findings from their countries and a regional perspective. The objectives of the project and the logic of intervention have been presented, with an emphasis on partnership with the state. ...

Legislation related to participation of civilians in peacekeeping missions was in focus of the panel discussion "The capacity of Bosnia and Herzegovina for civilian participation in peacekeeping missions" held in Sarajevo on 12 May 2015. One of the speakers at the event was researcher from the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy Marko Milosevic.  BCSP Researcher presented the legislation in Serbia, especially provisions of the Law on Military and the proposed amendments to the ...

Emsad Dizdarevic from Centre for Security Studies, BCSP partner on the project „Building Civilian Capacities from the Western Balkans in Peace Support Operations", analyzes Bosnia and Herzegovina civil capacities for peace missions and operations.

It is necessary to put an end to past conflict and move forward into the future marked by cooperation and understanding, it was concluded by the participants of the Summer School on Security Policy - six-day seminar which gathered young people from Serbia, Kosovo and Albania in exchanging experiences and participating in a series of discussions and lectures on security policy, regional cooperation and the Serbian-Albanian relations.

The lecture in BCSP library gathered representatives from Serbian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Defence, Security Information Agency, OSCE Mission to Serbia, political parties and civil society.

In this case study BCSP Researcher Zorana Brozovic has explored people’s perspective on territorial and boundary issues in South Serbia, near administrative boundary with Kosovo and Metohija. Data for this research were collected in the town of Bujanovac.

Miroslav Hadžić, president of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations Managerial Board, presented on Monday, February 23 a lecture within the programme "School for European Security" entitled "The Reach of Euro Atlantic Interventionism". He opened his lecture discussing the contents and meaning of the very notion of terms, interventionismand crisis. The concept of crisis management makes for the birth-place of interventionism, believes Hadzic. "Crisis management", by the way, "is not always the part of the solution, but is however, part of the problem". As ...