The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy and partner organizations, prepared a series of seminars for activists throughout Serbia. In the period from August to December, over 15 meetings and trainings were held in which about 150 activists from local communities participated.

How to communicate complex research effectively? How to present different parts of the research to different audiences? Why think about all this from the very beginning of the research process? These are just some of the issues that BCSP interns discussed with Stevan Vujasinović, a communications expert in the field of public policy, at the third online workshop held on December 8th and 9th.

Are institutions and politicians really working for the public interest? How is corruption perceived in Serbia? Are citizens ready to support activist initiatives? You can read what citizens think about these and other issues in the latest BCSP analysis.

How to present complex topics from the field of security so that they are clear and easily understood and how to bring them closer to the general public through posts on Wikipedia was the central question of the online workshop organized for interns by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy on November 10th.

BCSP is proud to announce the expansion of its research team with three outstanding researchers. Vuk Vuksanović, Luka Šterić and Srđan Hercigonja are new members of the BCSP team.

Through a series of online workshops held from 13th to 23rd October, BCSP interns learned more about security sector reform, cybersecurity, and public policy research.

The smear campaign against BCSP and the targeting of our researchers and members of the BCSP Executive Board are just another example of the increasingly hostile political environment in which civil society organizations operate in Serbia.

On the occasion of the release of the recent Freedom House “Nations in Transit” report in which Serbia found itself in the category of a “hybrid regime” instead of a democratic country for the first time in 17 years, we express serious concern for the state of democratic institutions in Serbia. We call on the Government of the Republic Serbia to take these assessments seriously and work hard towards ensuring the conditions for the improvement of democracy and media freedom in the country, and call on the European Union and its Member States to adequately recognise these issues as crucial in the process of European integration.

For the eighth consecutive year, BCSP was recognized among the best think tanks in the world on the research topics of defence and national security, and foreign policy and international relations.