Advocacy, good and bad use of PR tools, designing the media plan and community building were the topics discussed on the second capacity building worshop for the A-COP group.

The seminar Gender mainstreaming in policing was realized as a part of cooperation between Swedish National Police Board (SNPB), Belgrade Center for Security Policy (BCSP) and Ministry of Interior with support of Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA) within the program of Development of the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia 2012-2014 Phase II: Supporting the implementation of the Development Strategy.

Corruption risk assessment methodology, as well as the mechanisms and instruments for addressing those risks were at the very focus of the regional seminar that gathered 10 think-tank organizations from the Western Balkans. The seminar was aimed at raising research capacities of the participating organizations in dealing with police corruption, and has also served for exchanging participants’ knowledge on this subject.  The BCSP was represented at the seminar by ...

Peacekeeping operation are in the nexus of modern civil-military cooperation, and will continue to present a test for the ability of the armed forces, their level of training and interoperability - these were conclusions of the roundtable "Future of (Serbia’s) Security Integration: Cooperation in Defence and Peacekeeping," that BCSP Researcher Marko Savkovic participated in.

The BCSP researcher Gorana Odanovic explains the role of civil society organizations in implementation of the UN resolution which landmark international legal framework that addresses not only the inordinate impact of war on women, but also the pivotal role women should and do play in conflict management, conflict resolution and sustainable peace.

{image1}What is - in real life - police corruption in Serbia, and which are the most practical „tools“ for researching this phenomenon, these were some of the topics at the first training for representatives of the A-COP group. Participants of the treninig held at Mokra Gora, from 31 May to June 2, were also representatives of the Internal Affairs Sector (IAS), and the Centre for Investigative Journalism of Serbia (CIJS). Introductory ...

The Regional Dialogue on Gender and Security: Uniting Governments' and CSOs’ Efforts in Implementation of the UNSCR 1325 Agenda gathered 47 representatives from state agencies, government equality bodies, ministries of defence, ministries of interior, local civil society organizations and international organizations from the Western Balkans: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Serbia.

With this publication the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) team has mapped, analysed, explained and presented to the public a map of the corruption risks in the army, the police and the security services in Serbia. This publication is a product of the project "Risk Map of Corruption in the Security Sector", which is conducted by kind support of the Anti-corruption Agency of Serbia.

Independent state institutions in the Western Balkan countries are becoming important factor in monitoring the security sector, appraised the participants of the conference organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP).