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The differences in security needs of man and women and reporting about women employed in security sector were the most interesting themes of training organized by Belgrade center for security policy (BCSP).

A recent expert opinion on the causes of the accident at the ammunition factory „Prvi partizan" in Uzice established that the explosion was caused by bad gunpowder. These findings refute the findings of the previous expertise according to which human factor was the cause of the accident. Read what the BCSP research team discovered in 2011 about this accident, as well as about the tragedy in Paracin.

Speakers at the round table held in the BCSP’s library noted that the global „Government Defence Anti-Corruption Index" stressed numerous risks from corruption were identified in Serbia’s defence system, with procurement being one of the principal problem areas, but Defence Ministry representative stated objections to TI UK’s methodology, and offered some advice for further research.

According to the findings of the Global Defence Anti-Corruption Index, Serbia’s defence system is among those threatened by a high corruption risk.

In this paper we will present the assumptions underlying the research conducted by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations team within the "Mapping and Monitoring Security Sector Reform in Serbia" project.

Since it emerged from the donor and academic communities in the 1990s, the concept of Security Sector Reform (SSR) has been through numerous transformations. SSR can be defined as "the process through which security sector actors adapt to the political and organizational demands of transformation." The aim of SSR is "the efficient and effective provision of state and human security within a framework of democratic governance."

Over the last eight years (2000-2008) we have seen important and positive changes in the security sector of the Republic of Serbia. Those changes are one of the main products of Serbia’s gradual, sometimes laborious, yet ongoing democratization and liberalisation.

The current security situation at the local level, but also in Serbia and the region, the different approaches to solving security challenges and the legality of security services operations were the topics of discussion between Sonja Stojanović, Director of BCSP, and representatives of parliamentary parties youth, during a working breakfast organized by TransConflict.

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 ...