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Oct

Local Consent Essential for Resilient Projects in Crisis

Belgrade Security Forum was open with Academic Event titled “How Conflict Sensitive is EU Crisis Response?” with welcoming words from the organisers. Sonja Stojanović Gajić, of the...

BSF 2018 Special Pre-Event Leadership for a Secure Region

Oct

NATO and Serbia Closely Cooperating for the Progress in the Region

The cooperation between Serbia and NATO in maintaining peace and tranquility as the foundational elements of progress is ever more successful and benefits overall economic...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić (Belgrade, November 2015)

Oct

SPECIAL BSF EVENT: Leadership for a Secure Region

Belgrade Security Forum will be hosting a conversation between Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg and President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić on...

Sep

VOLUNTEERS READY FOR THE BSF 2018

Preparatory training for volunteers selected for the 2018 Belgrade Security Forum events was a chance to get to necessary information and skills for organization of...

Jul

BSF Saddened by the News of Thorvald Stoltenberg’s Passing

The Belgrade Security Forum is deeply saddened by the news of of Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg’s passing. Mr. Stoltenberg was a dear friend to our organization...

Jul

Winners of the CfP Announced

One of the BSF strategic goals is to increase the participation of think-tanks (especially those from Balkans) at the BSF, so to promote original knowledge...

Jul

BSF 2018 Volunteer Team Selected

Upon reviewing all the applications and conducting a series of interviews during June, the BSF Team is pleased to announce that 28 volunteers have been...

Jun

Academic Event panelists selected

We are pleased to announce that the participants of the BSF Academic Event 2018 have been selected. This year’s academic event will be organized on...

May

Call for BSF 2018 Volunteers

Deadline extended! New deadline for applications June 15, 2018 at 23:59. The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) are pleased to invite enthusiastic...

Apr

CALL FOR THINK-TANKERS FROM THE BALKANS 2018

The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) are inviting think-tankers from the Western Balkans to provide food for thought papers for discussion on “Balkan...

Apr

CALL FOR PAPERS BSF 2018: How Conflict Sensitive is the EU Crisis Response?

The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) are pleased to invite security scholars and researchers to submit proposal papers for this year’s Academic Event...

Mar

Eighth Belgrade Security Forum in October on the New Normal

Belgrade Security Forum 2018: Finding Answers Together to the New Normal, to take place from October 17-19 2018, Hotel Hyatt Regency, Belgrade Continuing uncertainty and...

Mar

Towards the “new normal” in international relations?

by Marko Savković, Program Director of the Belgrade Security Forum* When asked on the state of Russia’s relations with the European Union, the director of...

Jan

Oliver Ivanović: A tragic Loss

Shocking news coming from Kosovo* this morning, as we learn that our frequent speaker and participant Mr. Oliver Ivanović, former State Secretary in Ministry for...

Oct

BSF: All About the People

by Svetlana Stefanović, Executive Director, Belgrade Security Forum For a seventh year in a row, Belgrade was on the global map of political debate...

Oct

BSF Closed: We Will Use Your Arguments in Best Way

Keynote address at the closing of the seventh Belgrade Security Forum was given by the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić in the...

Oct

BSF Calls for Rebuilding Rule of Law as a Cornerstone of Stability in Europe

The 7th Belgrade Security Forum identified erosion of democracy and rule of law as the main crises in Europe. Deepening and rapidly increasing inequalities left...

Oct

Normalizing Lives Before Politics: Including Women, Civil Society & Citizens in the Dialog

Panel on Belgrade-Pristina dialog was looking for “something new and important” to be said, as implored by Alex Grigorev, the sharp and authoritative moderator of this...

Oct

Trust and Cooperation for Resilient E-Government

During 2016, we witnessed an increased number of large-scale cyber attacks paralyzing governmental services in developed and developing countries equally. This trend is making it...

Oct

Fighting Populism with Actions Not Words

Starting off with a quick poll on questions like Do you live in democracy? How many parties in your country are populist? the panel chair...

Oct

Millennials Going Political

Under the headline “Voices of the Millennials: The Agents of Change” held in partnership with the Regional Youth Leadership Forum the challenges that millennials in...

Oct

Post-Truth: Technology in Service of Manipulation

The panel “Soft Power Revisited: Alternative Facts for a Post-Truth Reality” discussed new political reality in the light of Brexit and the election of Trump,...

Oct

Back to the Common Future: Rule of Law & Free Media Crucial

What is our common future? is the question equally asked in the EU and the Western Balkans. Accordingly, the BSF Plenary Panel 4 gathered the...

Oct

EU Integrations: Worst Case Scenario is Leaving parts of Western Balkans Out

Experts from across the Western Balkans gathered in the think-tank session 5 to explore possible story-lines of the scenario “What if the Western Balkans Never...

Oct

Brexit: Promising a More Cohesive or an Increasingly Differentiated Europe?

One of the most lively panels at the Belgrade Security Forum covered a wide variety of topics including: the ramifications of Brexit; the merits and...

Oct

Future Proxy: From Soft Power to Interventions

As the Cold War unfolded, the term proxy war signified a regional or local conflict that turned into flash point confrontation between the world’s two...

Oct

Serbia an Exporter of Stability in the Western Balkans

Special Event NATO – Serbia Partnership: Contributing to Western Balkans Security discussed the relations between NATO and the Republic of Serbia in a positive tone,...

Oct

Getting Over ‘Lots of Religion Equals Little Security’ Mantra

The session “Patters of Perception and Misunderstanding: Religion and Security” started off rather interesting with the moderator Pavol Demeš asking people in the audience to...

Oct

Inequality: Structural Problem Warranting Global Solidarity

The panel “Challenging Inequality: Ways Forward” was facilitated by Dave Keating, an American journalist well-versed in European politics. Although the members of the panel had...

Oct

Time for Establishing Woman of the Balkans for New Politics

Sonja Licht opened this session touching upon experience from last year’s panel, where women politicians and activists from Kosovo participated in discussion with their counterparts...

Oct

Berlin Process Helps to Keep Enlargement in Sight

The whole intention behind the Berlin Process was to speed up the integration process of the Western Balkans eleven years after the Thessaloniki Summit, where...

Oct

EU Funds No Match for its Ambitions in the Western Balkans

Is there such a thing as an undesirable investment? This question took center stage during the session “Effects of Foreign Economic In?uence on Sovereign Nations”...

Oct

Immigration Crisis Turns into Integration Crisis

The year 2015 saw one of the biggest mass migrations in history. This enormous wave of people fleeing conflict caught everyone involved unprepared for the...

Oct

Where is Europe Headed? Internal Threats to EU Values and the Promise of Macron

This seven-person panel, dauntingly tasked with envisioning the future of an EU currently facing crisis and fatigue was elegantly facilitated by The Economist’s Tom Nuttall....

Oct

Taking Stock of EU Missions Abroad

The last panel of the Academic Event focused on the EU’s missions abroad and detected the lack of local ownership and a rather mixed track...

Oct

EU Comprehensive Approach to Security: Drawing Parallels

The second academic panel saw the discussion on the EU’s comprehensive approach to security, through examinations of the EU engagements in the Western Balkans, the...

Oct

In Search of Common Understanding between Military and Civilian Missions

The first panel of the Academic Event of the Belgrade Security Forum 2017, titled “EU as a Civil-Military Crisis Manager” focused on the challenges faced...

Oct

EU Crisis Management System is Failing without Strategic Autonomy

In his keynote address at this year’s opening of the Academic part of the program of the Belgrade Security Forum, Professor Michael E. Smith, University...

Oct

Time to Fuel Debate on Serbia-NATO Relations with Facts Rather than Emotions

by Marija Ignjatijević, Researcher, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy Ten years after Serbia declared military neutrality, public discussion revolving around this strategic choice does not...

Sep

Waiting for the Next Dynamo of Integration

by Marko Savković, Programme Director, Belgrade Security Forum Elections in Germany must have been one of the most anticipated events of 2017. Less than...

Sep

BUILDING A TEAM SPIRIT FOR THE SEVENTH BSF

A preparatory training was held last week for our newly selected volunteers to get to meet the BSF team and get necessary information and skills...

Sep

There Can Be No Peace Without Food Security

by Elisabeth Rasmusson, Assistant Executive Director, UN World Food Programme The relationship between food security and human security, between hunger and conflict, is the...

Aug

The Spectre of Nationalist Populism

by Álvaro Vasconcelos, Former director of the European Union Institute for Security Studies Marine Le Pen’s defeat in the French presidential elections was greeted with enormous relief...

Jul

We Have Selected Volunteers for BSF 2017

After conducting interviews with all applicants, the BSF Team is pleased to report that we have selected 17 volunteers to join other volunteers and the...

May

Belgrade Security Forum 2016 Conference Report

Belgrade Security Forum 2016 Conference Report is now available. The overall topic of this year’s BSF was “Will Democracy Survive the Global Disorder?”. The BSF 2016...

May

CALL FOR THINK-TANKERS FROM THE BALKANS

Strategic priority of the BSF is to enable Western Balkan’s contribution to resolving some of the key security issues Europe faces, as well as to...

May

Call for Volunteers for Belgrade Security Forum 2017!

The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) are pleased to invite enthusiastic and motivated students and graduates from universities, schools and institutes based in...

Mar

CALL FOR PAPERS: The European Union as a Global Crisis Manager

The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) are pleased to invite security scholars and researchers to submit proposal papers for this year’s Academic Event...

Feb

Sonja Licht for Robert Bosch Foundation’s Magazine Peace

Sonja Licht, president of the Belgrade Fund for Political Excelence and a BSF Steering Committee Member, gave an interview for the Robert Bosch Foundation’s Magazine...

Feb

BSF 2017: Building a Common Future in the Age of Uncertainty

When it ended with Donald Trump’s victory, 2016 presented less than a clean break with the past, but rather a venture into the unknown. As...

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