The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) organized a panel discussion titled “Serbia and Ukraine: Challenges of War” that gathered experts from Ukraine and Serbia, aiming to discuss the relations between Serbia and Ukraine, pro-Russian narratives and position of Ukraine and the Western Balkans in the European security architecture after the end of the war. Helena Ivanov, an associate research fellow from the Henry Jackson Society, moderated the panel.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 pushed Europe into a new era of instability. The fundamentals of the continent’s political and economic order are shifting as Russia’s brutal methods of war undermine the prospects of the slightest cooperation between Moscow and European states.

The half-day conference titled “Walking the (Barb)wire: Balkans between the War and Peace,” organised by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, was the opportunity to present and discuss the findings of the latest edition of the Balkan Defence Monitor, as well as of the public opinion poll on regional relations.

We present you the new Balkan Defence Monitor - independent and comprehensive source of information regarding defence topics in the region.

The study analyses Serbian citizens' views on three main topics – the possibility of outbreak of conflict in the Balkans, Serbia's bilateral relations with its neighbours, as well as the key benefits and opportunities of regional cooperation and initiatives.

The war against Ukraine and Ukraine's application for EU membership changed the way the EU looks at the Western Balkans and enlargement process, it is concluded during the discussion at the Munich Security Conference, co-organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy invites you to apply to the program called ''Conflict transformation through empathetic peace education''. The program will strive to bring students from Serbia and Kosovo closer together through education, empathy, and role-playing with the aim of providing a deeper understanding of the process of normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina.

Half of the population in Serbia see Russia as the main foreign policy partner and 2/3 have positive attitudes towards Russia, while the main source of the radical pro-Russian narrative is pro-government media with their narratives that are transported to the public. That was pointed out during the panel discussion BCSP organized on December 14.

We present you the analysis of the results of the public opinion survey on Serbian foreign policy and relations with great powers.