This January, draft Law on Detectives prepared by the MoI was sent to the National Assembly in order to be adopted under urgent procedure. After BCSP warned how, by its adoption, rights guaranteed by the Constitution may be endangered, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance, Rodoljub Sabic, asked for this draft Law to be withdrawn from procedure. The problem is this draft stands in contradiction to the Law on Protection of Personal ...

Serbia has adopted its Strategy for Managing Migrations in 2009, yet in order for it to be implemented more efficiently, more active monitoring and increased advocacy is necessary.

Recently, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) was listed among the best think tanks in the world by the 2010 Global Go To Think Tank Rankings.

Belgrade School of Security Studies is a special division of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations set up to carry out systematic research and promote academic advancement of young researchers thus contributing to the development of security studies in Serbia (SCG). Due to the departure of the researcher to the postgraduate studies in London, the School has launched a supplemental competition for the admission of one researcher to the Belgrade School ...

At Belgrade’s Faculty of Political Sciences, on November 21, 2007, in the presence of Ambassador of Kingdom of Norway Haakon Blankenborg, Assistant Minister of Defence for Defence Policy Dušan Spasojević, representative of the OSCE Mission in Serbia Vladimir Bilandžić, representatives of state institutions, students and journalists, MA Studies in International Security were officially opened. Jelena Đorđević, in charge of the MA and PhD studies at the Faculty, ambassador Blankenborg ...

Study visit to security institutions in Pozarevac that BCSP organized for journalists received wide media publicity, which was followed with numerous media appearances on current security issues.

Research Associate of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), Marko Savkovic, participated in the 2009 NATO-Ukraine Partnership Network Planning Conference entitled "Civil Society Involvement in Security Sector Reform: Lessons Learned and Recommendations for a Way Forward". Marko spoke on recent experiences related to policy making process in Serbia and summarized the findings of CCMR's strategic project, "Mapping and Monitoring of the Security Sector Reform in Serbia". The planning conference ...

Jelena Radoman, Advocacy Coordinator, delivered a lecture on security sector reform (SSR) in Serbia at the Security Sector School for Journalists in Prishtina. The lecture was focused on process of reform of security sector in Serbia from the 2000 up to present. Beside Serbia’s case study of SSR, participants had a chance to learn more about SSR in Albania and Macedonia. The lectures for the case studies were delivered ...

Centre for Civil-Military Relations wishes to inform civil society organizations, members of the academic community and public in general that the initiative to extend the deadline for public discussion on the draft National Security Strategy and Strategy of Defense has been accepted by Defense Minister Dragan Sutanovac. Public debate will now be closed at January 31, 2009. In the response of the Ministry, signed by the Director of the ...