From July 19 to 21, 2010, the research team of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCBP) had consulted the representatives of twelve state institutions in the security... More  

Professor Hakan Wiberg, long time friend and associate of the Centre, has passed away.Born in 1942, a mathematician, philosopher and sociologist by formal education, throughout his career Wiberg with strong dedication to research and institution building advanced peace... More  

On Tuesday, July 6, a group of 25 students from the region visited the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, as part of the project "Future prospects of the region" implemented by the Youth Education Committee (www.ooo.in.rs). Guests wanted to... More  

On Monday, July 5, 2010 interns of the eighth generation started their practice in the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP). They were welcomed by BCSP team, led by Education Coordinator Djordje Popovic. After Djordje... More  

Director of the Centre, Sonja Stojanović, held in Geneva on June 30, 2010 a workshop for the representatives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry... More  

Within the "Regional service of European integration", a programme implemented by NGO Millennium Kragujevac for the last several years, and aimed at informing citizens of the process of European (and since... More  

Jelena Radoman, Research Fellow and Advocacy Coordinator at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy, has joined Hellenic Centre for European Studies (EKEM) research team as a Visiting Fellow in May - September 2010... More  

Education coordinator in the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy Đorđe Popović presented at the first Joint PhD Symposium on Modern and Contemporary South East Europe on 18 June 2010 in London. The symposium was jointly... More  

On Friday, June 25, 2010 at the Media Centre Belgrade in front of more than 60 guests, two new publications of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP), "Dictionary of European security" and the policy vision,... More  

Another seminar on enhancing methodology and index for measuring security sector reform in the Western Balkans was held in Zagreb on June 21 to 23. Host of the seminar was the Institute for International Relations... More  

Goal of this policy vision is to offer arguments in favor of proactive integration of Serbia in the EU Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP) until 2020. Vision starts with a brief overview of ZSBP and the concept of battle groups of the... More  

Belgrade Centre for Security Policy invites you on Friday,  June 25 2010 to participate in the debate on how Serbia can progress towards EU membership through security cooperation. The discussion will start at 10... More  

16th issue of the Western Balkans Security Observer was presented on Wednesday, June 16, 2010 in the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy.MP and a member of the parliamentary board for defense and security Vlajko... More  

In the premises of the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) Ambassador Vaclav Bartuska, recently EU Envoy in the Russia-Ukraine gas dispute held a lecture on challenges to achieving energy security in Europe. Since the... More  

Dear partners, colleagues and friends,  We inform you that Centre for Civil-Military Relations has on 1 June 2010 changed its name to BELGRADE CENTRE FOR SECURITY POLICY.  The decision to change the name is a result of an internal process of strategic planning... More  

On Wednesday, June 16  from 11 a.m. Centre will be organizing the discussion "On Serbia’s capacities for greater involvement in multinational operations". The trigger for organising this event is promotion of the... More  

The collection of papers “Security Policies in the Western Balkans” is a result of the research performed within the framework of the project “Civil Society Capacity Building to Map and Monitor the Security Sector Reform in... More  

Centre's Research Fellow Đorđe Popović was one of the presenters at the conference “NATO’s New Strategic Concept: Perspective from the new member states”, which was organised by the Institute for International Relations on May... More  

In the crowded auditorium 1 at the Faculty of Political Science, on Wednesday, May 19th, NATO Assistant Secretary General Jirgy Sedivy has spoken about the proposition for the new strategic concept of the... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations joined the Coalition for public finances oversight (www.nadzor.org.rs) is pressing criminal charges for the abuse of office against ministers Tomica Milosavljević, Oliver Dulić, Slobodan Milosavljević and Saša... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations invites you to the discussion with Ambassador Jirgi Sedivi, NATO Assistant Secretary General for defence policy and planning, to be held on Wednesday, May 19th 2010 from 4 p.m. on the... More  

Over fifty representatives of state institutions and civil society organizations dealing with issues of gender and security sector reform have discussed the state of representation of women in... More  

Martin Povejšil, Czech Ambassador to NATO visited Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. In the presence of representatives of corps diplomatique, academic community and civil society he spoke of costs and benefits of... More  

From 23-26th April, Research Fellow of the CCMR Adel Abusara participated in the 20th Workshop of the PfP-Consortium Study Group “Regional Stability in South East Europe (RSSEE)” with the topic “15 Years of Peace-Building... More  

Latest issue of the Centre's "Western Balkans Security Observer" was recommended in the April edition of ISN Newsletter to its 5.000 subscribers, http://www.isn.ethz.ch/isn/Digital-Library/Publications/Detail/?id=114838 . Established in... More  

The Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), together with the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE) and the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) is pleased to invite you to the conference... More  

Czech Ambassador at NATO, Martin Povejšil, will visit Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Tuesday, April 27, 2010. Starting at 5 p.m, Povejšil will speak on Alliance’s strategic concept currently in the making,... More  

Sonja Stojanović, director of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Jelena Radoman, advocacy coordinator, Đorđe Popović, education coordinator, and Svetlana Đurđević-Lukić, CCMR’s associate,... More  

For the issue 110 of the „Odbrana“ magazine, Sonja Stojanovic, Director of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations spoke on the experiences she gained while attending the Program on US National Security Policy, held at Delaware... More  

Delegation of Norwegian association "People and Defence" ("Folk og Forsvar") visited Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Tuesday, April 13, 2010 as part of their Balkans study trip. Established in 1951, "People and... More  

Seminar dedicated to enhancing methodology and index for measuring security sector reform was held from 7 April to 11 in Durres, Albania. Host of the seminar was the Institute for Democracy and... More  

CCMR researcher Marko Savković lectured on new security threats on Friday, April 9th, on the workshop organized in Sremska Mitrovica by Transconflict Serbia. Workshop was dedicated to enhancing Serbia’s Euro... More  

Center for Civil-Military Relations has joined the initiative for diversification of budget line (number) 481, which entails finances for NGOs, political parties, religious groups and sports associations. This initiative calls for... More  

This issue of the Security of the West Balkans is dedicated to different dimensions of complexity inferred by the concept of multinational operations (MNO). The first text deals with the empirical research of the capacity of Serbia’s... More  

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... More  

Intending to further develop criteria and indicators for measuring progress of security sector reform, internal workshop was organized in Ečka, in which researchers and interns of Centre for Civil-Military Relations participated.On the first day of work (Thursday,... More  

CCMR website was hacked on Sunday, March 28th. To mark their “deed” Albanian hackers left a flash animation of offensive content, which is displayed in the attachment.In the meantime, problem was resolved and website of the Center is now functioning... More  

The second issue of the Collection of policy papers on police reform in Serbia is a result of the joint work of three researchers from the three NGO’s – the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, the Centre for Civil-Military... More  

Consultations with local stakeholders on Gender and Security Sector Reform were continued in Novi Pazar on 16 March and in Bujanovac on 17 March 2010. Representatives of civil society, local institutions and MoI mainly discussed... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations in partnership with the Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE) and the Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) organized on 10 and 11 March 2010... More  

Winner of the fifth competition in rethorics in tribute to Zoran Đinđić “Orations in tribute to Zoran”, with this year’s topic “Nobody is as good as he could be if he would try harder” is Toma... More  

The second Collection of Policy Papers on Police Reform in Serbia was presented on Monday, 8 March 2010 at the Media Centre in Belgrade. This Collection is a result of the joint work of three civil society organizations –... More  

Professor Miroslav Hadžić, President of CCMR Managerial Board, and Sonja Stojanović, Director of the Centre were on March 4 and 5 in Montenegro, where they held a two-day introductory seminar with the subject of... More  

The presentation will take place on Monday, 8 March 2010 at 11h in the Media Centre, Terazije 3. More  

Student of the first generation of the School for European Security, organized by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations in 2008 and 2009, Toma Vukic, reached the finals of the competition in rhetoric... More  

The Young Faces network brings together young professionals, NGO activists, journalists and government officials from South-Eastern Europe and gives them an opportunity to engage in a broad debate concerning contemporary issues of global and... More  

Director of the Centre, Sonja Stojanovic has spent six weeks in the United States participating in the work of the Institute for National Security Programme (www.international.udel.edu/NSI/2010). "This programme... More  

Svetlana Đurđević-Lukić, Research Fellow of the Institute for International Politics and Economics Belgrade, presented on Wednesday, February 3, 2010, on the first year of Obama's administration, its sucesses and failures.... More  

On Tuesday, February 2, 2010 conference on donor assistance to SSR in Serbia was organised under the auspices of Balkan Trust for Democracy and ELIAMEP, Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy. Đorđe Popović,... More  

On Monday, February 1, 2010 seventh generation of interns has been introduced to the work of the Centre, through a series of presentations delivered by Research Fellows.Our new interns are Marko Pavlović, Kristina Vrešćak, Nevena... More  

Jelena Radoman, Advocacy Coordinator, presented the Centre for Civil - Military Relations, on the Conference „Czech Republic and Serbia: Cooperation for Integration“which was held on Wednesday, 20th of January in the Embassy of the... More  

In December, Research Associates of CCMR have published following papers:Adel Abusara has written his view of President Medvedev's concept of European Security for the December edition of the Security Review, Centre for Security Studies Belgrade... More  

The national parliament of Republic of Serbia adopted the set of laws for regulating the defense and security of Serbia. Serbian Parliament has also adopted several strategic documents – National Security Strategy, Strategy of Defense and... More  

The EU and Serbia Justice and Home Affairs Newsletter is being prepared in order to broaden the circle of those aware of the developments in European Union’s third pillar policies, as well as police reform in Serbia. We believe... More  

The first issue of the collection of policy papers on police reform in Serbia is a result of the joint work of three researchers from the three NGO’s - the Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, the Centre for Civil-Military Relations and... More  

17th Annual International Symposium on “The New Strategic Concept of NATO” was organized by the Greek Association for Atlantic and European Cooperation in Athens 17- 19 December 2009.... More  

The Centre for Civil-Military Relations is pleased to invite you to the public debate “How can Serbia achieve the EU standards in the Area of Freedom, Security and Justice?”. The public debate will take place on 17... More  

Researchers of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), Jelena Radoman and Adel Abusara participated from 10th to 12th December 2009 on a seminar “Bridging Research and Policy in the Western Balkans” in Skopje which was organized by the... More  

In the Centre for Cultural Decontamination, organized by the Dangraf publishing house, public discussion "How Safe are We" was held on Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Principal reason behind this was that... More  

The public discussion will take place on Tuesday, 8 December 2009 at the Center for Cultural Decontamination at 6:00pm (Bircaninova 21, Belgrade). Speakers that will discuss about the results and achievements of the security sector reform in Serbia... More  

On Friday, 11 December 2009 at the restaurant “Kristal” (Kolarceva 1, Beograd) at 7:00pm School for European Security will be officially closed with the lectures on the role of the European Union in the multi-polar world by Prof. Tanja Miscevic... More  

Within its internship programme, CCMR has accepted applications from three young aspiring political scientists: Nadia Ejoshvili from Georgia, Veronique Panchaud from Switzerland and Dag Ole Huseby from Norway.Véronique Panchaud... More  

At the three day seminar held in Mavrovo, Macedonia from 23-26 November 2009, representatives of six civil society organizations from the Western Balkans (Institute for Democracy and Mediation from... More  

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, the Centre for Civil-Military Relations and the Forum for Security and Democracy invite you to the presentation of the Collection of Policy Papers on Police Reform in Serbia No.... More  

"Yearbook of Security Sector Reform in Serbia" was presented to representatives of Serbia's Ministry of Defense and Serbian Armed Forces (SAF) General Staff on Friday, November 27, 2009. Words... More  

Upon the invitation of the City of Belgrade Agency for Cooperation with CSOs and European Harmonization, CCMR presented its internship programme at the 2009 Internship Days, organized at the premises of the Belgrade Fair.Foreign interns and interns from Serbia... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) in cooperation with Novi Sad School of Journalism (NSSJ) organized on 23rd and 24th November in the premises of NSSJ a training on responsible reporting from multinational... More  

The "Yearbook of Security Sector Reform", chief product of Centre's two year "Mapping and Monitoring SSR in Serbia" was presented on Friday, November 20 to the members of corps diplomatique stationed in Belgrade. Director of the... More  

Report from the public discussion “How far has the reform of the security sector advanced?” More  

Media Training organized with Novi Sad School of Journalism More  

Mavrovo, Macedonia, November 23-26, 2009 More  

At the suggestion of the CCMR, on Friday November 13th, presentation of the findings of the “Yearbook of Security Sector Reform” was held in the Security-Information Agency. Unique methodology and research findings... More  

At the suggestion of the CCMR, on Friday November 13th, presentation of the findings of the “Yearbook of Security Sector Reform” was held in the Ministry of Justice. Team of the Centre, consisted of Director, Sonja Stojanović,... More  

At the suggestion of the CCMR, on Thursday November 12th, presentation of the findings of the “Yearbook of Security Sector Reform” was held in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Team of the Centre, consisted of... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations (www.ccmr-bg.org) civil society organization from Belgrade, invites you to public discussion on how to improve the security sector reform in Serbia. The... More  

Issue No. 7 of EU and Serbia Internal Affairs Bulletin includes the presentation of EU JHA Council conclusions, followed by latest draft of the Stockholm programme and EUROPOL's organized crime threat estimate. First part of the... More  

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... More  

United Nations in Serbia celebrates the United Nations Week, which will take place  from October 23 to 30, 2009 under the slogan "Wake up and move – we are counting on you!".United Nations Week includes a series of... More  

Research Fellow of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Adel Abusara participated in the conference “NATO and the NEW Strategic Concept – Romania’s priorities”, which was held on October 24th in... More  

The Centre for Civil-Military Relations is proud to inform friends and associates of the upcoming presentation of Iver Neumann’s book Meaning, materiality and power: introduction in Discourse Analysis (Norwegian original... More  

Collection of Essays "Business and Security" comprises papers submitted to the conference of the same name, organized by the Centre on November 6 and 7, 2008 in the National Assembly. The organization of the conference was made... More  

As a representative of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Marko Milošević visited the headquarters of NATO in Brussels and SHAPE (Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe) in Mons, Belgium on October 5 and 6. The delegation comprised by thirteen members called... More  

Faculty of Political Science Belgrade is announcing the opening of the competition for master studies in International Security for the 2009/2010 academic year. This unique academic programme is made for all who are interested... More  

Recommendations of Strategy of national security and Strategy of defence of Republic of Serbia, as well as recommendations of seven laws in the field of defence and security... More  

Security sector reform is one of the central preconditions for any democratic transition. It pertains above all to an institutional transformation towards democratic control, as well as security cooperation and harmonization of the national... More  

The results of CCMR's two year research project, "Mapping and Monitoring Security Sector Reform in Serbia" have been made available to public for the first time this week. The "Yearbook", being an unique... More  

The competition for becoming part of the sixth generation of interns in the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) was officially closed today by a reception and welcome speech in the Centre. On this occasion, CCMR administration and researchers held... More  

Delegation of the General Staff of the Japanese Self-Defence Force visited Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Friday, September 18, 2009. On this occasion, Centre’s Research Fellows discussed with their guests... More  

From September 16-17, 2009, the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, in cooperation with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), has hosted Parliamentary Staff Advisors from... More  

On Wednesday, September 9, 2009, a meeting was held in the premises of the Savski Venac municipality, with the aim of discussing modalities of cooperation between partners involved in the writing of the "Youth Action... More  

In the letter sent to the Ministry of Justice, Civic Initiatives and the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) Serbia's Anti Corruption Agency called for changes in the draft Law on Data... More  

The Centre for Civil-Military Relations is proud to announce how the newest addition to its Belgrade Library of Security Studies, a publishing series co-led with Alexandria Press, is Robert Kagan's "The Return of History and the... More  

In this issue we address the relation between the political theory of Carl Schmitt and the Copenhagen School of Security Studies. Schmitt’s basic ideas about the term “political”, the controversies that they started and the reasons for... More  

The Law on Data Confidentiality is one of the key pieces of legislation still missing from the legal system of the Republic of Serbia. This law should include the foundation of a system to identify and store confidential data... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR) was present at the International Youth Day Ceremony, which was organised on August 12th in Belgrade's Republic Square. Research Associates Djordje Popovic and Maja Bjelos and interns Jovana Stanojevic and... More  

The idea for this issue arose during the conference on the role of independent research centres (IRC) in the security policy, which was organized by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations in November 2008. During that conference, we... More  

The Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), a civil society organisation from Belgrade, within its internship/fellowship programme provides an opportunity to qualified candidates to... More  

Three Research Associates of CCMR participated in the seminar “Dynamics of Collective Security: NATO in the 21st Century” that was organised by TransConflict Serbia... More  

Please find attached the first issue of the newsletter Justice and Home Affairs of the European Union and Serbia. The Newsletter presents a summary in English of monthly newsletter published in Serbian. The Newsletter is the result of... More  

Panel discussion "Serbia en Route to Positive (White) Schengen List – Role of the Ministry of Interior" was jointly organised by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade Centre for Human Rights and Forum... More  

In Belgrade’s Media Centre presentation of the Collection of Papers “Business and Security” was organized by Centre for Civil-Military Relations. After the presentation a discussion ensued on the most interesting... More  

In the Palace of Serbia, in cooperation of the Ombudsman of the Republic and Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), round table on the draft Law on Military Security Agency (MSA) and... More  

"School for European Security" was continued on June 27 and 28 with the planned simulation of decision making in the Council of the EU. It was the first simulation of its kind in Serbia, focusing on problems... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations invites all those concerned to attend the presentation of the collection of essays "Business and Security" ("Ekonomija i bezbednost" in Serbian), to be organised on... More  

The Belgrade Centre for Human Rights, the Centre for Civil-Military Relations and the Forum for Security and Democracy are pleased to invite all those interested to... More  

Ombudsman of the Republic of Serbia together with the Centre for Civil-Military Relations will on Friday, July 3, 2009, organise the round table on the Draft Law on Military Security Agency and... More  

Sonja Stojanović, Director of the Centre and Filip Ejdus, until recently its Executive Director, have become members of the European Movement in Serbia’s Forum for International Relations at its meeting... More  

In early May, Centre for Civil-Military Relations organised an international conference "Culture and Security Sector Reform" in Sremski Karlovci. Deputy Editor of the magazine... More  

The second research seminar of the "Mapping and Monitoring Security Sector Reform (SSR) in the Western Balkans countries" project... More  

The 10th Young Faces Network event will be organised by DCAF with the aim of bringing together young professionals, NGO activists, journalists and government officials from South-Eastern Europe, and providing them with an opportunity to engage in... More  

Director of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), Sonja Stojanović and Gorana Odanović, Research Fellow at the CCMR have participated at the seminar „Implementation of UN SCR 1325 in Serbia“ where they have... More  

On 12 May, the delegation of the National War College from Washington DC, USA, visited the Center for Civil Military Relations. The NWC is one of the United States premier academic institutions in national security policy and strategy, whose mission is to educate... More  

Israeli Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia, Arthur Koll, spoke on the issue of “Peace Process in the Middle East” on Monday, May 11. His lecture was attended by a significant number of civil society representatives, students of the... More  

The Centre for Civil-Military Relations organized the conference “Culture and Security Sector Reform: Political, Strategic and Military Culture in... More  

Antonio Missiroli, director of studies in the Brussels-based European Policy Centre (EPC) presented a lecture on the European Security Strategy (ESS), observed six years later, in a changed... More  

Please find in the attached document the final agenda for the upcoming "Culture and Security Sector Reform" conference, to be organized by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations Belgrade, with the support of the Royal... More  

President of the Centre’s Managerial Board Miroslav Hadžić, Coordinator for Research Activities Predrag Petrović and Research Fellow Saša Đorđević have participated and... More  

On 9 April, only five days after the 60th Summit of Heads of State and Governments of NATO member states, the Centre for Civil-Military Relations organised a discussion about the outcomes of the Summit held in Strasbourg and Kehl. The introductory presentations were... More  

Austrian Defence Attache, Jozef Holzl, was invited to the "School for European Security" on Monday, April 6, to present a lecture on Austria's participation in European Security and Defence Policy (ESDP).Holzl jump... More  

On Thursday, 9 April at 12 o'clock the Centre for Civil - Military Relations is hosting  'NATO at its 60s' - post-summit discussion'. The motive for this event is the 60th Summit of Heads of State and Governments of NATO member states which took place in... More  

First research seminar within the implementation of the project, “Mapping and Monitoring of the Security Sector Reform in the Western Balkans countries” was organised in Budva... More  

On Monday, March 23, Ivan Zveržanovski discussed with the students of the School for European Security does a separate strategic culture of European Union exist and if it exists, what makes her distinctive.Centre's guest began his presentation by suggesting a... More  

Three problems have been at the focus of Western Balkans Security Observer (WBSO) No. 11: security sector reform in transforming societies, political misuse of conflict and the parliamentary control of European Security and Defence... More  

Forum on Human Security and Global Governance of the European Policy Centre More  

Filip Ejdus, Đorđe Popović and Marko Savković, Research Fellows of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, presented on Thursday, March 12, at the Military Academy of Serbia, upon invitation by the organizers of a study trip for... More  

Lidija Čehulić-Vukadinović, professor at the Zagreb Faculty of Political Science, presented within the programme of the School for European Security lecture entitled „European... More  

Representatives of Serbia’s Internal Affairs Ministry, Zorica Đokić-Milosavljević, Snežana Elez and Nebojša Purić were Centre for Civil-Military Relations’... More  

Sonja Stojanović, Director of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, participated in the workshop organised within the first in a series of seminars by OSCE Mission to Serbia, organise with the aim of increasing National Assembly’s capacity to deal... More  

Professor Hadzic presented at the School for European Security More  

Srdjan Gligorijevic, Director of Analytics within the ISAC Fund Belgrade, presented on February 16 the subject of European Union's Security and Defence Policy (ESDP) in the Western Balkans. He introduced... More  

On February 9th, Natasa Dragojlovic, expert of the European Movement in Serbia presented the historical development and institutional framework of the European Union's Common Foreign... More  

The aim of the conference is to explore the linkages between political, strategic and military culture in post-Communist states, and in particular in the Western Balkans. In doing so, it will seek... More  

Director of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Sonja Stojanovic, has participated in the consultations with three-member delegation of the European Comission, undertaking an official visit to... More  

Round table on the draft strategies of national security and Serbia’s defense was organized by CCMR on January 28, 2009. Work was divided into three panels, where... More  

Mladen Spasic, Minister of Internal Affairs counsellor for international cooperation, presented the priorities related to fulfilling the obligations proscribed by the Serbia’s Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA) with the... More  

CCMR documentary to be broadcasted on B92 More  

Bilateral meeting between experts of CCMR and Ministry of Defence Strategic Planning Department, organised on January 21 served as a continuation of public discussion on the drafts of Serbia's National Security Strategy and... More  

Raphael Bossong, Research Associate at the Global Public Policy Initative Berlin presented on Monday, December 19, a lecture on the development as well as perspectives and challenges ahead of the EU's anti terror policy.Opening his... More  

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... More  

Dear Mr. Šutanovac,We respectfully invite you to revise the timeframe set by the Ministry of Defence for public discussion of the draft National Security Strategy and the draft Strategy for Defence of the Republic of Serbia. It is our opinion... More  

Sonja Stojanović, Director of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, held a presentation for students of the "School for European Security" on... More  

Presentation of the publication “Lessons Learned: Serbia and Slovakia in the processes of security sector reform and Euro Atlantic Integration”, co-organized by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, Belgrade, and Centre for European... More  

On Monday, December 15, Robert Ondrejcsak of the Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs, Bratislava critically approached the idea of European Union presenting a "peace project".Next lecture will take place on Monday, December... More  

The series of introductory lectures in the "School of European Security" continued on Friday, December 12. On this occassion, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Political Science and the former Director of... More  

Intern at the Belgrade School of Security Studies, Branka Panic, took part in the first Security Sector School for Journalists in Prishtina (1st – 6th of December 2008.), organized by the Kosovar Center for Security Studies – KCSS in cooperation... More  

Venue: Belgrade City Administration, Street 27. marta, No. 43-45, wing A, room 2 More  

In November, Centre for Civil-Military Relations began the realisation of the project "School for European Security", by publishing its Call for aplications in the "Danas" daily newspapers. Selection narrowed the list to 32... More  

Sonja Stojanović, Director of the Centre, has appeared as an independent expert at the 20th meeting of the Liberal-Democratic Party Board for European Integration, after being invited by the Board’s president. In the first... More  

Representatives of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations and RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation (www.racviac.org), Professor Miroslav Hadzic and Ambassador Hadzimusic have signed the Memorandum of Understanding on Friday, November... More  

On November 18th, Peter Vanhoutte, Parliamentary Empowerment Expert from the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), gave a presentation “Emerging Security Challenges in Kosovo” at the Centre for Civil-Military Relations. Mr.... More  

On Tuesday, November 18 at 14:00 Peter Vanhoutte, Parliamentary Empowerment Expert from DCAF is coming to the Centre where he will give a presentation "Emerging Security Challenges in Kosovo".He aims at providing a brief overview of the current... More  

On November 12th, the Center for Civil-Military Relations hosted the Belgrade Attaché Association. The purpose of this visit was to introduce Defense Attaches from 18 countries with the Center’s current and planned activities along with its staff and... More  

The Centre for Civil – Military Relations organized ‘Business and Security’ conference on 6 - 7 November in the National Assembly  of the Republic of Serbia. Representatives of the governmental institutions of the Republic if Serbia,... More  

The Centre for Civil-Military Relations has published a series of Backgrounders, short analytical publications intended to help explain security sector reform, security integration and security studies, which are now available at www.bezbednost.org. The Backgrounders... More  

Although integration to the EU is backed by the vast majority of citizens, accession to NATO is a highly controversial topic even among the democratic political parties. The... More  

In the new (double) issue of “Western Balkans Security Observer” 9-10 we have dedicated special attention to those events that have marked past summer on international and internal level. Jelena Radoman writes how Russia might turn out... More  

Two researchers, Biljana Kotevska from Macedonia and Rajko Radević from Montenegro have begun their work in the Centre for Civil-Military Relations. Since September 2008, Biljana Kotevska is working as a Researcher in think-tank... More  

With the support of OSCE Mission in Serbia, Centre for Civil-Military Relations has undertaken an field research within the scope of the project „Private Security Companies (PSC) in Serbia - A Friend or Foe?“. This is the... More  

Robert E. Ebel of the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington D.C. has presented the lecture "The Russian and Georgian Conflict: Lessons Learned" on Friday, October 10, at the Centre for Civil-Military... More  

Research Fellows of the Belgrade School of Security Studies, Jelena Unijat and Djordje  Popović, took part at the 17th Partnership for Peace International Research Seminar in Stockholm, “NATO and its... More  

Research Fellows of the Belgrade School of Security Studies, Filip Ejdus and Marko Savkovic have taken part in the online debate "Everything you wanted to know about the Western Balkans but were afraid to ask". The debate was... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations cordially invites you to take part in the debate “Energy Security: the Challenges in Europe”, which is scheduled for Friday, October 10, 11 a.m. in the premises of the Centre (Gundulicev venac... More  

Together with the Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs from Bratislava the Centre for Civil - Military Relations organized one day seminar ’Serbian foreign policy perspectives and alternatives’. The seminar main topic... More  

Partner organisations, Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs Bratislava and Centre for Civil-Military Relations Belgrade are organising a one day conference "Serbia's future foreign policy alternatives" on Thursday, October 2. Special... More  

Friends and partners of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, We have decided to postpone two of the events originally planned for October. Conference “How Can Independent Research Centres (Think Tanks) Be Involved in Security Politics?” will... More  

A team of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations consisted of research fellows at Belgrade School of Security Studies (BSSS) and associates of the Centre went round Western Balkans Region from 14th to 21st September 2008. On that occasion, we visited Zagreb, Sarajevo,... More  

On Thursday, September 11, Centre for Civil-Military Relations was visited by a delegation of students of postgraduate and PhD studies of several universities in Norway, along with the young leaders of this country’s most prominent political parties. Their... More  

Study Programme for Students From Serbia's Universities More  

September 1, 2008 – March 31, 2009 More  

The Centre for Civil-Military Relations (CCMR), a civil society organisation from Belgrade, announces call for 3 Research Fellows from Western Balkan countries for autumn 2008. The Research Fellows will be provided with an opportunity to spend... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations wishes to inform its friends and partners that in the period from September 11 to 14, 2008 a meeting of the Working Group for Regional Stability of South East... More  

The public debate “Should Serbia Be Militarily Neutral?” was organised by the Centre for Civil-Military Relations  within the project “Increasing Citizens’ Participation in Security Politics”, supported by the Institute for... More  

- Regarding the RATEL Proposal of 11 July 2008 - More  

From June 28 to July 6, Gorana Odanović participated in traditional „Summer School for young professionals“ (in security policy) organised by the Centre’s partner organisation, CENAA Bratislava. For the first time, this event... More  

Public debate “Security sector reform as a precondition to EU membership – role and possible contribution of civil society“ was held at the Centre for... More  

On Thursday, July 10, Lt. Col. Michael Legault, Canadian Defence Attaché, David Emelifeonwu, Senior Staff Officer engaged in Defence Education Outreach at Canadian Defence Academy and David Harris, who is the Executive Director of the Master of Arts Programme... More  

On Tuesday, July 8, new publications of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations have been presented: study „Private Security Companies in Serbia – A Friend or Foe? “, collections of presentations from a conference held in October 2006, „Security... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations and Centre for Democracy and Human Rights (Podgorica, Montenegro) have signed the Memorandum of Understanding. This MoU is designed as a document which should facilitate... More  

The idea of starting The Belgrade Studies of Security Library* originated somewhere in 2007, within the academic community of the Belgrade School of Security Studies. The general idea behind... More  

Ambassador of Finland to Serbia, Kari Veijalainen, has presented the “Security and Defence Issues (as) seen from Finland” in the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Friday, June 13. Centre’s guest has spoken on the policy led by this... More  

A selected group of government officials, coming from Security Policy Departments of the Ministries of Defence of the Nordic and Baltic countries visited Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Thursday, May 29. Their visit was organised... More  

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... More  

The newest edition of the „Western Balkans Security Observer“ is centered around three matters of attention. In the first thematic part, presentations from the panel „Serbia 2007: Illiberal Transformation or Prolonged Transition“... More  

Research capacities of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations have been expanded in January 2006, when, thanks to the support of the Royal Norwegian Government and the Balkan Trust for Democracy, the Belgrade School of... More  

On 25 April 2008, Filip Ejdus, BSSS's research fellow and Executive Director of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations participated at the workshop “Integrating the Western Balkans: Kosovo and its Implications for the... More  

Starting from February, Centre for Civil-Military Relations began signing memorandums on exchanging journals and other publications seen as important for security studies. In less than three months,... More  

Delegation of NATO Parliamentary Assembly (PA) led by the Chairman of the Committee on the Civil Dimension of Security Michael Clapham (United Kingdom) and the representatives of the Sub-Committee on Future Security and Defence... More  

Within the project “Legal Counselling”, lawyer Đorđe Dozet, Vice-president of the Managing Board of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations Milorad Timotić and Project Assistant Jelena Unijat visited cities of Niš (April 16) and... More  

The Western Balkans Security Observer (WBSO) is a publication emerged in the academic community of the Belgrade School of Security Studies, Serbia. The editors of Western Balkans Security Observer would like to publish the papers of researchers newly... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations has, with the assistance of the European Movement in Serbia (its local council in Valjevo) organised on Tuesday, April 8, 2008 Legal Counselling for citizens that have a request, complaint, or enquiry related to the work of Serbia’s... More  

Representatives of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations and the Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs (CENAA, www.cenaa.org ) have signed the Memorandum of Understanding on April 5, 2008. The intention of the parties was to... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations and Jagello 2000 (Association of Euro-Atlantic Cooperation), one of the Czech Republic’s leading civil society organisations in studies of security and process of... More  

A group of over 30 students from Copenhagen University visited the CCMR and BSSS on Friday, 21 March. Students, who arrived to Belgrade for a few days visit on their Western Balkans tour, had an opportunity to meet with Research Fellows of the... More  

Organised by International Centre for Democratic Transition from Budapest, NATO Advanced Training Workshop “The Role of Female Security Experts in... More  

-we deliver the report made by Tanjug News Agency- More  

As a part of the "Lessons Learned: Security Sector Reform and Euro-Atlantic Integration in Slovakia and Serbia" project, CCMR Research team visited Bratislava from March 6 to 9, so that the second workshop intended in... More  

A new project of the International Institute for Political Studies (http://www.iips.cz) of Masaryk University in Brno, “Central European Political Studies Review” is an on-line, peer-reviewed quarterly that focuses on the... More  

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... More  

On October 30 and 31, 2006 Centre for Civil-Military Relations has, with support and in cooperation with the Government of the Czech Republic and Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces organised a two-day... More  

The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the Centre for Civil Military Relations – Belgrade (CCMR) have joined their forces in 2007 and 2008 in order to gather 13 young and prospective... More  

Cornelius Friesendorf, Research Associate of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations, will present a lecture entitled "The Military, Law Enforcement, and... More  

President of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations Managerial Board, Miroslav Hadžić along with Director of the Centre, Sonja Stojanović, presented on Tuesday, December 18, sixth issue... More  

Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Republic of Serbia asked a Civil Society representative, Centre for Civil-Military Relations Executive Director Filip Ejdus, to coordinate a thematic working group assigned with the task of drafting the National... More  

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... More  

Dear colleagues and friends,We are pleased to inform you that the sixth issue of Western Balkans Security Observer is released. In this issue, authors focused their attention on the research of the results of the security cooperation... More  

On November 14, a discussion was organised by the OSCE Mission in Serbia and Centre for Civil-Military Relations on the use of special investigative techniques and civil oversight. The... More  

Colonel Dragan Gostovic, the representative of the RACVIAC Centre from Zagreb and the chief of RACVIAC’s Defence Conversion Cell, paid a visit to the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Monday, November 12. Col. Gostovic presented RACVIAC as a regional... More  

A group of five representatives of civil society from Kosovo, led by the representative of the Novi Sad Centre for Regionalism, Tanja Tucić, visited Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Monday, November 5.... More  

"Kosovo status story will remain a process for a very long time" said Forum for Ethnic Relations Manager Dušan Janjić and University of Pittsburgh Professor Robert Hayden at the round table "Kosovo - the final-point in the... More  

Stefan Füle, Permanent Representative of the Czech Republic to NATO, visited the Belgrade School of Security Studies, on September 27, 2007, and presented the lecture on the “Integration of the Czech Republic to... More  

Study programme for Serbian university students organised by the Jagello 2000 foundation More  

Almira Cemmell, from Grayson Pender Wordsworth (GPW) Company, visited Centre for Civil – Military Relations on Thursday, September 20, 2007 and held a lecture on private security and intelligence agencies. In her presentation,... More  

Representatives of 17 civil society organisations (CSO’s) met at the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Tuesday, September 18, where they attended the first meeting, held over the Centre’s initiative for establishing a... More  

Experts invited by the Ministry for Youth and Sports on writing the part of the National Strategy for Youth that deals specifically with security related matter, held a meeting in the Centre on Tuesday, September 18. One of the... More  

Researchers of the Centre for European and North Atlantic Affairs that are, alongside with the research team of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations engaged in the project “Lessons Learned: Security... More  

Fifth issue of „Western Balkans Security Observer“ (WBSO) was presented on Thursday, July 26, in the Centre for Civil-Military Relations. The promotion was attended by friends of Centre and the School, representatives of state... More  

Belgrade School of Security Studies (http://www.bsss.ccmr-bg.org ) is a special division of the Centre for Civil-Military Relations set up to carry out systematic research and promote academic advancement of... More  

The Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF) and the Centre for Civil Military Relations – Belgrade (CCMR) will join forces in 2007 - 2008 to gather young and prospective opinion leaders from South Eastern Europe.Two training... More  

Žarko Puhovski, professor at the Faculty of Philosophy (University of Zagreb), visited the Centre for Civil-Military Relations on Wednesday, July 11, 2007 and held a lecture on the reach of European Union’s normative power. In his presentation, Puhovski... More  

On July 19th Institute for Advanced Studies and University of Bristol organized a workshop entitled “Illiberal Transformation or Protracted Transition?” The workshop gathered an international group of experts to reflect on the... More  

Brigadier General Yannick Asset, Chief of NATO Military Liaison Office visited on Wednesday, June 6, Centre for Civil-Military Relations and its research unit, Belgrade School of Security Studies. School’s Research... More  

Centre for Civil-Military Relations in cooperation with publishing house Alexandria Press, has launched a new edition entitled Security Studies. Its aim is to publish classic works from the field of International and Security Studies side by side with young... More