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 ...

Public debate “Security sector reform as a precondition to EU membership - role and possible contribution of civil society“ was held at the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Tuesday, July 15. Tanja Miščević, Director of the Government of Serbia’s European Integration Office (SEIO), Zoran Jeftić, State Secretary of Defence, representatives of international organisations and civil society organisations which are interested in the matters of security policy was all present ...

Today in the Norwegian Institute of Foreign Affairs (NUPI), Sonja Stojanovic, the CCMR director and Zorana Atanosovic, BSSS Research Fellow delivered presentation on the development of CCMR and its project Mapping and Monitoring of Security Sector.  In informal atmosphere, Sonja and Zorana discussed with the colleagues from NUPI about challenges of measuring progress in security sector reform. They gained valuable feedback by the NUPI researchers specializing in political science, ...

Representatives of Serbia’s state institutions - ombudsman Saša Janković, Commissioner for Information of Public Importance Rodoljub Šabić, Ministry of Internal Affairs Bojana Panić, experts in the matter of biometric technologies - Ninoslav Janjić (WLS Electronic), Ratimir Drakulić of the Faculty of organisational sciences, Oliver Subotić of Serbian Orthodox Church - as well as civil society organisations’ (CSO) representatives, Dejan Milenković of YUCOM and Aleksandar Pavić of "Za život bez žiga" („For a life without a ...

The collection of papers written by the students at the Specialist Studies Course of National and Global Security, Faculty of Political Science, generation 2004