{"id":17725,"date":"2019-12-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/najava\/how-can-security-intelligence-services-be-in-service-of-citizens-and-not-politicians\/"},"modified":"2019-12-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-12T23:00:00","slug":"how-can-security-intelligence-services-be-in-service-of-citizens-and-not-politicians","status":"publish","type":"najava","link":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/event\/how-can-security-intelligence-services-be-in-service-of-citizens-and-not-politicians\/","title":{"rendered":"How Can Security-Intelligence Services Be in Service of Citizens and Not Politicians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t<strong>The trend of politicization of the security-intelligence services has visibly advanced in Serbia. What can Serbia use from the experiences of North Macedonia and Montenegro in security-intelligence services reform to reverse this trend is the main topic of the discussion organised by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on Friday, 20 December 2019 at 11am, at Media Center (2<sup>nd<\/sup> floor, Terazije 3, Belgrade).<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>\tFollowing questions will be in the focus of the discussion:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\tDo we know the boundaries between the security-intelligence services and the ruling party in Serbia?<\/li>\n<li>\t\tIs the \u201cMacedonian scenario\u201d in security-intelligence services reform suitable for Serbia?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; What would be the results of the relocation of the surveillance capacities from the security-intelligence services to a separate body?<\/p>\n<p>\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; Would putting mobile surveillance equipment under control have any effect?<\/p>\n<p>\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; What would it mean to revoke police powers from members of security-intelligence services?<\/p>\n<p>\t\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 &#8211; Is the lustration of security-intelligence services possible?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\tIs the \u201cMontenegrin model\u201c of introducing new security-intelligence services personnel appropriate for Serbia?<\/li>\n<li>\t\tWhy are the already non-transparent security-intelligence services in Serbia and Montenegro additionally closing to the public?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>\tAnswers to these questions will be offered by:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>\t\t<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/bezbednost.org\/List-of-all-people\/4087\/Predrag-Petrovic.shtml\">Predrag Petrovic<\/a><\/strong>, BCSP Executive Director<\/li>\n<li>\t\t<strong>Dina Bajramspahic<\/strong>, Researcher at the Institute Alternative from Montenegro<\/li>\n<li>\t\t<strong>Magdalena Lembovska<\/strong>, Researcher at the Centre for European Strategies EUROTHINK from North Macedonia<\/li>\n<li>\t\t<strong><em>Moderator<\/em><\/strong><em>: <strong>Vuk Cvijic<\/strong>, NIN journalist<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\tPlease confirm your participation by Thursday, 19 December by email at <a href=\"mailto:office@bezbednost.org\">office@bezbednost.org<\/a> or by calling 011 3287 226.<\/p>\n<p>\tSimultaneous translation into English is provided.<\/p>\n<div class=\"anterfile\">\t<strong><em>This discussion is supported by European Fund for the Balkans within the regional program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.balkanfund.org\/programme-fields\/building-capacities-of-think-tanks\/\">Think and Link<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0through the project \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/bezbednost.org\/All-projects\/7043\/Watching-the-Watchers-Towards-Accountable.shtml\">Watching the Watchers: Towards Accountable Intelligence Services in the Western Balkans<\/a>\u201d, which is jointly implemented by\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/bezbednost.org\/Bezbednost\/2001\/English.shtml\"><em>Belgrade Centre for Security Policy<\/em><\/a><em>\u00a0from Serbia,\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/mcet.org.mk\/_home\"><em>Center for European Strategies &#8211; EUROTHINK\u00a0<\/em><\/a><em>from North Macedonia and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/institut-alternativa.org\/en\/home\/\">Institute Alternative<\/a>\u00a0from Montenegro.<\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The trend of politicization of the security-intelligence services has visibly advanced in Serbia. What can Serbia use from the experiences of North Macedonia and Montenegro in security-intelligence services reform to reverse this trend is the main topic of the discussion organised by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) on Friday, <a href=\"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/event\/how-can-security-intelligence-services-be-in-service-of-citizens-and-not-politicians\/\"> &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":13567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","categories":[8602,8591],"tags":[5181,5857,2235,7699,8482,5799,7531,7518,7521,7641,8141,4991,7461,8218,7535],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-17725","najava","type-najava","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security-services","category-serbian-security-policy","tag-ldquo","tag-belgrade","tag-centre","tag-citizens","tag-discussion","tag-european","tag-intelligence","tag-macedonia","tag-montenegro","tag-north","tag-politicians","tag-security","tag-serbia","tag-service","tag-services"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/najava\/17725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/najava"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/najava"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/najava\/17725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17725"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=17725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}