Investigating the causes and mechanisms driving peaceful transformation in the Balkans, the book edited by BCSP Director Sonja Stojanovic Gajic, and BCSP Board Member and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Sciences Filip Ejdus examines developments in the region and contributes to discussions on security community building. Focusing on how different professional communities work together in the creation of regional peace and security, it sheds new light on how diplomats, ...

BCSP supports the action taken by the the European Coalition to End Violence against Women to protect the text of the Instabul Convetion from changes demanded recently by several hundred European right-wing and conservative organizations. The letter sent to Secretary General of the Council of Europe as a reaction was signed by 3800 organizations.           Signatories from Serbia: European Women’s Lobby members Autonomous Women’s Centre, ...

For the sixth consecutive year, BCSP was voted as one of the best think tanks in the world on the research topics of defense and national security, and foreign policy and international relations. In the 2017 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) is the best ranked think-tank in Serbia and in the Western Balkans covering defense, national security, foreign policy and international ...

Dear friends and colleagues,   BCBP wishes you safe and successful 2018.   In the year ahead, we will continue to explore topics important for the reform of the security sector, regional security cooperation and international security, all for the sake of the greater security and protection of rights of all citizens. Our goal is to become better in cooperation with you! Take a look at the best from ...

The Belgrade Center for Security Policy once again calls on the Ministry of Interior (MoI) to stop political attacks on citizens' associations and to start acting as an institution that is in service of the citizens, and to finally agree on public dialogue for systemic responses to the problems in police work. A press release was published on December 26, 2017 on the MoI's website, in which the BCSP ...

{image1} Democratic institutions and the rule of law have been endangered throughout Europe, and the polarization of societies has made it difficult to oversee the security sector. This was emphasized during the third panel of the conference organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on the 20th anniversary celebration, on 28 November 2017 in Dorcol Platz. The third panel conference was dedicated to exacerbating democratic control of ...

{image1} Threats to the Western Balkans communities are coming from within and the external actors are used only to intimidate voters, so the role of the civil society organizations is to combat these narratives with knowledge. Those are the conclusions of the second panel of the conference organized by the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) on the celebration of 20TH anniversary, on the November 28th in Dorcol Platz. ...

Researchers Marija Ignjatijevic and Jelena Pejic from September 2017 were new members of the Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCBP) team. Marija Ignjatijevic graduated in International Affairs at the Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade, and received her MA in International Relations  studies at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest. During her studies, she received several scholarships: OSCE scholarship for the Master Studies in International ...

BCSP research team offers recommendations for the improvement of informing citizens on European integration and points out that the existing approach prevents the interested public from following the process of accession negotiations, analyzes, proposes and evaluates been done in the area of EU integration.