"School for European Security" was continued on June 27 and 28 with the planned simulation of decision making in the Council of the EU. It was the first simulation of its kind in Serbia, focusing on problems rising in the second pillar of the EU - its common foreign and security policy. Students of CCMR's School for European Security and "Diplomacy in Practice" programme organised by European Movement in Serbia ...

Antonio Missiroli, director of studies in the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) presented a lecture on the European Security Strategy (ESS), observed six years later, in a changed international context. The issue has, however, served only as a point of departure for further discussion of EU’s role in the world today. Mr. Missiroli's lecture was organised within the educational project "School for European Security". Centre’s guest began by analysing ...

On 9 April, only five days after the 60th Summit of Heads of State and Governments of NATO member states, the Centre for Civil-Military Relations organised a discussion about the outcomes of the Summit held in Strasbourg and Kehl. The introductory presentations were given on behalf of the NATO contact point embassy in Belgrade - by Mr. Jan Vlkovsky, Political Officer in the Czech Embassy, on behalf of the ...

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 ...

On February 9th, Natasa Dragojlovic, expert of the European Movement in Serbia presented the historical development and institutional framework of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP). As the defining moments in development of CFSP, Natasa singled out the adoption of Single European Act, Maastricht Treaty and Amsterdam Treaty. Natasa's opening claim how EU presents the "most sucessful peace project in Europe's history" was not disputed, however, many of the ...

Jelena Radoman, Advocacy Coordinator, delivered a lecture on security sector reform (SSR) in Serbia at the Security Sector School for Journalists in Prishtina. The lecture was focused on process of reform of security sector in Serbia from the 2000 up to present. Beside Serbia’s case study of SSR, participants had a chance to learn more about SSR in Albania and Macedonia. The lectures for the case studies were delivered ...

Presentation of the publication “Lessons Learned: Serbia and Slovakia in the processes of security sector reform and Euro Atlantic Integration”, co-organized by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade, and Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs, Bratislava, was presented on Monday, December 15th, in the Library of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations. Deputy Chief of Mission of Slovak Republic to Serbia, Jan Psenica and Mihajlo Basara, Director of the MoD ...

On November 12th, the Center for Civil-Military Relations hosted the Belgrade Attaché Association. The purpose of this visit was to introduce Defense Attaches from 18 countries with the Center’s current and planned activities along with its staff and Research Fellows. The event was a good opportunity for Defense Attaches to gain a firsthand look at the work of the Center and the Belgrade School of Security Studies. The participants ...

Representatives of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations and RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation, Professor Miroslav Hadzic and Ambassador Hadzimusic have signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Friday, November 21. RACVIAC, founded in 2000 as the Regional Arms Control Verification and Implementation Assistance Centre, was originally a project under the Working Table III of  Stability Pact for SEE. Primary purpose of RACVIAC was to provide arms control training, promote confidence and security building measures and broaden ...