REGIONAL SECURITY COOPERATION

Political upheavals that have taken place in the EU and the U.S. and their impact on regional relations in South East Europe were the main topics of 34th Partnership for Peace Consortium Workshop named “South East Europe: Facing Western Upheavals and Regional Backslide”, held in Reichenau in Austria. This event has gathered numerous representatives of the governments, civil sector and academia from the Western Balkans and the EU. It ...

In the Western Balkans, the awareness of the importance and potentials of civilian capacities for participation in peacekeeping missions is not sufficiently developed - concluded the first panel of the conference "Security Challenges as a Link between Citizens and Institutions", which the Belgrade Center for Security Policy organized on 21 December 2016 in Belgrade. At the conference, which was organized as the final event of the three-year project “Building ...

Representatives of the Dutch embassies in the Western Balkans presented the view of the Netherlands on the state of play of Rule of Law in the region during the community expert meeting CHATvrtak on 26th of May at Belgrade Centre for Security Policy's premises.  The panellists were: Onny Jalink , Head of the Regional Balkans Rule of Law Unit Zyhrada Kongoli , Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in ...

Researchers from the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, European Policy Institute from Skoplje and Institute Alternative from Podgorica were in a study visit to Brussels from 16-18. May, where they discussed the issues pertaining to the rule of law in Serbia, Macedonia and Montenegro with the representatives of EU institutions

There is a solid legal framework for the rule of law in the region, but the implementation is still lagging behind, which is why citizens do not see the benefits of the European integration - it was pointed out at the panel discussion "The Rule of Law or the Law of Unrulable: The View from the Western Balkans". At the panel discussion organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security ...

Representatives of six civil society organizations signed the founding act of the „Balkan Security Platform” in the library of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy on March 7, 2016. Balkan Security Platform is founded by: • Analytica, Macedonia • Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, Serbia • Centre for Security Studies, Bosnia and Herzegovina • Institute Alternative, Podgorica, Montenegro • Institute for Democracy and Mediation, Albania • Kosovar Center for Security Studies - KCSS, Kosovo ...

The main conclusion of the School on Security Policy, which brought together young participants from Serbia, Kosovo and Albania, is that a better understanding and improvement of cooperation could only be achieved through the exchange of experiences, opinions and knowledge about each other.

This policy brief intends to shed some light on how police cooperation is conducted between Kosovo and Serbia.

Engagement in dialogue between Belgrade, Pristina and Tirana significantly improves cooperation, but a shared vision of the common future is needed in order to improve the lives of the citizens of all three communities - this was conclusion of the ninth and final meeting of the Security Research Forum.