Belgrade Centre for Security Policy Director Sonja Stojanovic Gajic was re-elected as a member of the OSCE Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions Steering Committee. The BCSP participated in the establishment of this network in 2013. Besides the BCSP Director, members of the Steering Committee are Irina Chernykh (KISI, Kazakhstan), Barbara Kunz (IFRI, France), Marko Lehti (TAPRI, Finland), Amb Philip McDonagh (Edward M Kennedy Institute for Conflict Intervention, ...

  Dear friends and partners, BCSP wishes you a safe and sound year 2019! We promise that we will contribute to this through #BREAKINGFEAR that is becoming increasingly important in the era of intimidation of citizens by portraying as a threat those who think differently, neighbours from the region, conflicts of great powers and so-called new threats. As always, the response from the BCSP will be based on research ...

It is necessary to perceive citizens as allies, and actively involve them in budget planning in order to fulfil their security needs - this was highlighted at the event organized by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) in Nis, on December 18th 2018. Opening the panel discussion, BCSP Researcher Sasa Djordjevic emphasized that the budget for 2019 was adopted without a proper debate in the Assembly, and that that ...

"I realized when I started to work in the police that we did not even learn about the basics of policing in the Academy. Every student of this Academy should spend at least a year doing elementary police work to get to know the job and issues, so they could later be a good manager."

Improved communication between police and traditional media and better visibility of police services on social media is the primary objective of the project BCSP is implementing.

Journal of Regional Security (JRS), founded by BCSP among others, in the new categorization of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia was assigned the M24 category, which is in the same range as the best international journals. Only two journals in the broader category Political sciences can be assigned this category. Since 2018 JRS can be found in databases Serbian Citation Index, ...

BCSP Researcher Katarina Djokic wrote for Pescanik.net about issues related to the current practices regarding procurement for the purposes of Serbian Armed Forces.

Confidence in the police in Serbia is growing, as well as the perception of corruption and the impression that the work of the police has been politicized, it was shown in the public opinion survey results presented by the POINTPULSE network and Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on November 6, 2018, in Belgrade. According to the research, six out of ten citizens in Serbia trust the police, which is ...

In the absence of a public debate, the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy takes this opportunity to comment on the amendments and point out those it considers problematic or inadequately explained.