The Assembly of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) chose new members of the Executive Board, which will lead the organization for the next four years. Luka Glusac, Gorana Radovanovic and Rodoljub Sabic were elected as the new members of the BCSP Executive Board during the session held on the 12th February 2019. Miroslav Hadzic, one of the founders of BCSP, will remain a member of the Executive ...

"You will be destroyed from the first to the last" reads the threateningletter that arrived at the address of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on February 13th 2019. Similar letter was received by other civil society organizations. The BCSP reported threats to the police and will file a criminal complaint against the sender. We expect reaction in accordance with the law from the institutions in the coming ...

{image1}BCSP Director Sonja Stojanovic Gajic co-delivered specialist course on Security Sector Reform (SSR) as a part of European New Training Initiative for Civilian Crisis Management (ENTRi) from 22-25 January 2019 in Brussels. The training was organised by the Austrian Study Centre for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR). This course focused on introducing participants to the long-term aspects of SSR processes which are linked to the overall recovery effort in ...

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) is for the seventh year in a row in company of world’s best think-tanks ranked in the Global Go To Think Tank Index Report! University of Pennsylvania (USA) traditionally publishes the most comprehensive list of leading think-tanks from around the world every year. BCSP is the best ranked think-tank in the Western Balkans covering defence, national security, foreign policy and international relations. In ...

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.