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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...