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Monitoring the state of democracy and freedom of expression and the media in Serbia will be in the focus of a new Cross-Sectoral Working Group of the National Convention on the European Union (NCEU) for political criteria, which was established on January 24, 2020 in Belgrade.

Civil society organizations and the media have the opportunity to file requests for misdemeanour proceedings in cases where their right to free access to information of public importance has been violated as a legal entity, the Misdemeanour Court of Appeal ruled. With this interpretation, the dilemma was solved that caused the misdemeanour courts to reject dozens of requests by civil society organizations across Serbia. At the Second Session of ...

{image1} How to present security sector reform so that citizens can understand it and how to make information on the subject available through Wikipedia? - that was the central question during the workshop which Belgrade Centre for Security Policy organized on May 23, 2019. Workshop participants were BCSP interns, students of Faculty of political sciences and Faculty of security and BCSP team members. Students had the opportunity to talk ...

{image1} Security sector reform is a complex concept that Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) wants to bring closer to youth and everyone who is interested to know more about security. This is the reason BCSP initiated #bezbednostABC (securityABC) and gathered students to present these topics in an understandable way through different online platforms. First workshop, focused on basic concepts, was held on 18 and 19 April 2019 in ...

Lately there is an increase in media reports about people who left the Serbian Armed Forces or the Ministry of Defense after years of service, dissatisfied with working conditions. In addition to financial reasons, corruption has emerged as one of the causes of this trend. The exchange of knowledge on potential forms of corruption in human resource management in the defense system necessary for effective oversight in this area ...

Deepening knowledge and exchange of views on the role that NATO should have in Serbia and the Western Balkans marked the study visit by the research team of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and journalists to the Allied Joint Force Command Naples - NATO (JFC Naples), which the BCSP organized on 30 January - 1 February 2019. The visit enabled close cooperation between researchers with expertise in ...

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

The Belgrade Centre for Security Policy is the leading organization for the fields of justice and internal affairs within the Sectorial Civic Society Organizations (SCSO Mechanism) and has since the founding of this platform participated in activities related to the programming, monitoring and evaluation of development assistance from the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA and IPA II funds of the European Union) and other bilateral donors. With the participation ...

{image1} Constitutional regulation of the security system should be a part of the ongoing constitutional reforms in order to constrain political power and establish a strong democratic civilian control. Apart from the actual text of the Constitution, of great importance are also the process of its adoption, as well as its subsequent implementation, it was concluded at the event organized by the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on ...