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16 Dec 2016

[BSF Talks] Alida Vračić: Brexit, Migration and Impact on Western Balkans

Belgrade Security Forum interviewed Ms. Alida Vračić, Mercator Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Brussels/Berlin‚ who participated at the...

08 Dec 2016

[BSF Op-Ed] Marko Savković: STAY ENGAGED WITH THE BALKANS, ONE PLACE WHERE CHANGE IS STILL POSSIBLE

In setting up the Belgrade Security Forum, we started with one simple idea: how actors in the Balkans could also resolve crises, other than just...

14 Nov 2016

MAKE MEDIA GREAT AGAIN

The last public session of this year’s Belgrade Security Forum touched upon the very crucial role of free speech in modern democracy. A very passionate...

14 Oct 2016

THE BEST OPTION FOR WESTERN BALKANS: NO INSTRUMENTALISATION – NO CONFLICTS

BSF Session What Choices for Countries in Between in an Increasingly Divided Europe? examined the geopolitical consequences for countries between the East and the West....

Robert Kosla, Lt. Col. (Ret.)
Microsoft CEE Area Director, Public Safety and National Security and Defence
Moderator: Filip Ejdus
Marie Curie Research Fellow at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS), University of Bristol
Srđan Cvijić
Senior Policy Analyst, Open Society Foundations
Ralph Wilde
Full-time member of the Faculty of Laws, University College London, University of London
Judy Dempsey
Carnegie Europe
André Hahn
Member of the German Parliament, from the Left Party Germany (DIE LINKE)
François Heisbourg
Chairman, International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS)
Jeta Krasniqi
Project Manager, Kosova Democratic Institute
Bruno Maçães
Former Secretary of State for European Affairs, Portuguese Republic
Chair: Goran Buldioski
Director, Open Society Initiative for Europe
Jeta Xharra
Director, Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN), Kosovo
Ivica Dačić
First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia
Vessela Tcherneva
Head of the Wider Europe program, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
Antonio Missiroli
Director, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EU ISS)
Senada Šelo Šabić
Scientific Associate, Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb
Dubravka Filipovski
Member of Parliament, Belgrade
Nemanja Džuverović
Assistant Professor in Peace Studies, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade Nemanja Džuverović
Natalia Piotrowska
PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Kent
Naim Rashiti
Executive Director, Balkans Group
Amb. Daniel Schaer
Ambassador of Estonia to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia
Sokol Bega
Deputy Head of Reporting and Political Analysis Unit, OSCE Special Monitoring Mission to Ukraine
Eleanor Stewart
Head of Transparency, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, United Kingdom
Zoltán Pogátsa
Lecturer, University of West Hungary
Eleonora Poli
Researcher, Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI), Rome
Remzi Lani
Executive Director, Albanian Media Institute
Emilia Redžepi
Member of Parliament, Pristina
Vladimir Petronijević
Executive Director, Group 484
Moderator: Marta Martinelli
Head of Team-External Relations, Open Society European Policy Institute
Theo Koritzinsky
Member, Norwegian Parliamentary Intelligence Oversight Committee
Nebojša Jokić
Head of the CERT Team, Ministry of Internal Affairs, Republic of Serbia
Gordana Delić
Director, Balkan Trust for Democracy, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Edi Rama
Prime Minister of the Republic of Albania
Giacomo Bazzani
PhD candidate in Political and Social Change at the University of Turin and University of Florence
Gordana Čomić
Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Serbia
Moderator: Shelley Inglis
Regional Cluster Leader for Governance and Peacebuilding, United Nations Development Programm (UNDP) – Regional Hub for Europe and the CIS, Istanbul
Elizabeth Collett
Director of Migration Policy, Transatlantic Council on Migration, Migration Policy Institute
Amb. Cameron Munter
CEO and President, EastWest Institute
Mats Persson
Former Special Advisor to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Marius Dragomir
Director of the Center for Media, Data and Society
Bojan Brkić
Deputy News Editor, Radio Television of Serbia
Alex Roinishvili Grigorev
President, Council for Inclusive Governance
Dejan Jović
Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb
Tatjana Papić
Associate Professor of International Law at the Union University, Belgrade
Javier Arizmendi Ruiz
Platform of People Affected by Mortgages, Spain
Sinan Ülgen
Chairman, Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)
Jakub Janda
Deputy Director, European Values Think-Tank, Czech Republic
Jim Seroka
Professor of Political Science at Auburn University, Alabama United States of America
Kostis Papaioannou
Secretary General for Transparency and Human Rights of the Ministry of Justice of Greece
Dušan Reljić
German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Brussels/Berlin
James Appathurai
Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy, NATO
Ahmet Evin
Professor Emeritus, Sabanci University, Istanbul
Marika Djolai
Poverty and Social Exclusion Consultant, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex
Andrej Matišák
Deputy Head of the Foreign Desk, Daily Pravda, Slovakia
Stevan Tatalović
Research Associate, Human Security Research Center (HSRC)‚
Thomas Bagger
Head of Policy Planning, German Foreign Office
H.E. Aleksandar Vučić
Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Serbia
Dragana Pećo
Investigate Journalist, Krik, Serbia
Ivan Vejvoda
Senior Vice President of the German Marshall Fund
Catherine Wendt
Head of Unit for Serbia, DG NEAR, European Commission
Tamara Skrozza
Vreme weekly; Member of the Press Council's Press Complaints' Commission
Richard Whitman
Visiting Senior Fellow, Chatham House
Olga Mitrović
Business Development Consultant Western Balkans, British Council
Sašo Ordanoski
Programme Director, Forum-CSRD
Gordan Bosanac
Chief Analyst, Centre for Peace Studies, Zagreb
Sonja Stojanović Gajić
Director, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
Misha Glenny
Visiting Professor, Harriman Institute, Columbia University
Irena Vojačkova-Sollorano
Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative, United Nations Development Programm (UNDP), Serbia
Franziska Klopfer
Project Coordinator, Geneva Centre for Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF)
Daniela Irrera
Associate Professor of Political Science and IR at the University of Catania
Thanos Dokos
Director General, ELIAMEP
Biljana Đorđević
Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade
Hedvig Morvai
Executive Director, European Fund for Balkans
Maja Bobić
Secretary General, European Movement in Serbia
Julia Himmrich
Doctoral candidate at the International Relations Department of the London School of Economics and a Research Associate at the Dahrendorf Forum
Tin Geber
Design and Tech Lead, The Engine Room, Zagreb
Maciej Popowski
Deputy Director-General in the Directorate General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement Negotiations of the European Commission
Goran Svilanović
Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council
Nikolaos Tzifakis
Assistant Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of the Peloponnese; Research Associate, Wilfred Martens Centre for European Studies
Jasna Plevnik
Founder and Deputy Director, Geoeconomic Forum, Zagreb
Alida Vračić
Mercator Fellow, German Institute for International and Security Affairs/Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP), Brussels/Berlin
Zoran Đorđević
Minister of Defence, Government of Republic of Serbia
Ruslan Deynychenko
Co-Founder and Executive Director, StopFake.org Ukraine
Sergio Carrera
Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs Programme, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Sebastian Dworack
Head of the International Capacity Development Team, Centre for International Peace Operations - ZIF, Germany
Pierre Mirel
Honorary Director General of the European Commission
Đorđe Krivokapić
Associate lecturer at the Faculty of Organizational Sciences; SHARE Foundation, Serbia
Moderator: Damjan Krnjević Mišković
Senior Fellow, Centre for International Relations and Sustainable Development (CIRSD), Editor, Horizons
Rosa Balfour
Senior Fellow, Europe Programme, The German Marshall Fund of the United States
Tanja Miščević
Head of the Negotiating Team for the Accession to the European Union, Government of Serbia
Alastair Crooke
Director and Founder, Conflicts Forum
Amb. István Gyarmati
President, International Centre for Democratic Transition
Artur Gruszczak
Associate Professor, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland‚
Ralph Wilde
Full-time member of the Faculty of Laws, University College London, University of London
Vladimir Radunović
Director of E-Diplomacy and Cybersecurity, DiploFoundation
Moderator: Ljubica Gojgić
Journalist, Radio Television of Vojvodina
Žarko Puhovski
Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb
Selmo Cikotić
Faculty of Political Sciences, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Zhang Qi
Research Fellow and Vice-Director-General, Research Department of Foreign Economic Relations, Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC)
Sonja Licht
President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Ivana Boštjančič Pulko
Project Manager and Researcher, Centre for European Perspective – CEP, Slovenia
Ivana Dragičević
Executive Producer International News, N1 News Channel (Moderator)
Moderator: Sonja Lokar
Executive Director, CEE Network for Gender Studies
Dijana Vukomanović
Member of Parliament, Belgrade
Goran Buldioski
Director of the Think Tank Fund, Open Society Foundations
Álvaro de Vasconcelos
Director, Projects for the Arab Reform Initiative
Sasha Havliček
Director and CEO, Institute for Strategic Dialogue
Valbona Zeneli
Professor of National Security Studies, College of International and Security Studies, George C. Marshall Center, Garmisch, Germany
Amb. Ivo Visković
Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade and member of the OSCE Panel of Eminent Persons
Olivera Injac
Assistant Professor, University of Donja Gorica, Montenegro
Hallee Caron
PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine
James Ker Lindsay
Eurobank Senior Research Fellow on the Politics of South East Europe, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
Leonhard Den Hertog
Researcher, Justice and Home Affairs Section, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Francisco de Borja Lasheras
Director, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR), Madrid Office
Marko Kovačević
Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade
Moderator:Florent Marciacq
Research Director, French-Austrian Center for Rapprochement in Europe (CFA/OFZ) Vienna and University of Luxembourg

Agenda

Full agenda

Day 1

12 Oct 2016

Day 2

13 Oct 2016

Day 3

14 Oct 2016

9:00 – 9:05

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Welcoming Speech

Speakers: Sonja Stojanović Gajić‚ Director, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

9:05 - 9:30

Sergio Carrera

Keynote Speech

Speakers: Sergio Carrera‚ Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Justice and Home Affairs Programme, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Sergio Carrera

09:30 - 11:00

Beograd and Budva Rooms

Academic Event Panel 1: Migrant and Refugee Crisis: Contesting the EU Normative Power

Migrants, the EU and NGOs: A preliminary investigation of recent trends and future perspectives Daniela Irrera, Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations at the University of Catania, Italy...

Nemanja Džuverović

Ralph Wilde

Leonhard Den Hertog

Stevan Tatalović

Julia Himmrich

Daniela Irrera

11:30-13:00

Beograd and Budva Rooms

Academic Event Panel 2: Looking beyond Migration: Challenges to Integration in Host Countries

Turkey as the gatekeeper: between ontological security and physical insecurity Natalia Piotrowska, PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science and International Relations, University of Kent Abstract: Turkey, due...

Biljana Đorđević

Jim Seroka

Marika Djolai

Artur Gruszczak

Giacomo Bazzani

Natalia Piotrowska

14:30-16:00

Beograd and Budva Rooms

Academic Event Panel 3: Reinventing Walls and Fortresses: Human Rights in The Age of Migration

International Human Rights Treaties versus Bilateral Readmission Agreements: Implications for Refugees and Illegalized Immigrants Hallee Caron, PhD candidate and Teaching Assistant, Department of Political Science, University of California, Irvine Abstract: ...

Ralph Wilde

Marko Kovačević

Tatjana Papić

Olga Mitrović

Senada Šelo Šabić

Hallee Caron

14:30 - 17:00

Kopaonik Room

Sokol Bega

Sebastian Dworack

Gordan Bosanac

Ivana Boštjančič Pulko

Expert Panel Discussion: Enhancing the Participation of Civilian Experts from Southeastern European Countries in Peace Operations

(Upon separate invitations only) (organised by Belgrade Center for Security Policy) Discussion Topics: Why are civilian capacities (CIVCAP) for peace operations important? What are the incentives for the use...

Sokol Bega

Sebastian Dworack

Gordan Bosanac

Ivana Boštjančič Pulko

16:00 - 16:30

Beograd and Budva Room

Academic Event – “SALUS” Award – for the best policy papers in the field of Security Studies

The “SALUS” award was founded in 2015 as a prize to be awarded to the best policy papers dealing with security policies, written by the students of the University of...

17:30 - 19:30

Crystal Ballroom

Special Event: Enlargement Moving beyond Europe’s Fatigue and Bilateral Disputes

(in partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans Discussion Points: Back in Top 10: where is the enlargement on the EU agenda? EU Enlargement or Isolation: how are the...

Ivana Dragičević

Nikolaos Tzifakis

Zoltán Pogátsa

Goran Svilanović

Catherine Wendt

Srđan Cvijić

20:00 - 20:30

Hotel Hyatt Regency Belgrade

Registration of Participants at Hotel Hyatt Regency

20:30 - 22:00

Beograd and Budva Rooms

Valbona Zeneli

Mats Persson

Alastair Crooke

Álvaro de Vasconcelos

Sasha Havliček

Session 1: Democracy’s Responses to Populism and Internal Radicalization

Chatham House Rule Discussion Points: What are the major causes of the recent right-wing populist surge in Europe? What should be done to stop the further mainstreaming of the far-right?...

Valbona Zeneli

Mats Persson

Alastair Crooke

Álvaro de Vasconcelos

Sasha Havliček

20:30 - 22:00

Crystal Ballroom

Alex Roinishvili Grigorev

Session 2: The Belgrade – Pristina Dialogue and the EU Future

Discussion Points: How is the current dialogue helping the EU future of Belgrade and Prishtina? Seems that the EU and the sides are doing not enough. What else could be...

Alex Roinishvili Grigorev

Naim Rashiti

Pierre Mirel

Gordana Čomić

Tanja Miščević

20:30 - 22:00

Kopaonik Room

Session 3: Propaganda and Strategic Communications: Experience of EU and Višegrad Countries

(in partnership with GLOBSEC with the support of the International Visegrad Fund) Discussion Points: What are the key differences between propaganda and disinformation campaign in the modern world? What is...

Andrej Matišák

Jakub Janda

Ruslan Deynychenko

Amb. Daniel Schaer

8:00 - 9:00

Registration of Participants at Hotel Hyatt Regency

9:00 – 9:10

Crystall Ballroom

Sonja Licht

Welcoming Speech

Speakers: Sonja Licht‚ President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence

Sonja Licht

09:10 -10:00

Crystal Ballroom

Misha Glenny

Edi Rama

H.E. Aleksandar Vučić

GRAND OPENING: The Future of Albanian-Serbian Relations and the Stability of South East Europe

Discussion Points: Albania and Serbia: substantial or superficial cooperation? What is the way forward for Albanian-Serbian relations? Why are the Albanian-Serbian relations important for the stability of South East European...

Misha Glenny

Edi Rama

H.E. Aleksandar Vučić

10:15 - 11:00

Crystall Ballroom

SPECIAL EVENT: Ten years on: Serbia, NATO and the Partnership for Peace

Speakers: Ivica Dačić‚ First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia Zoran Đorđević‚ Minister of Defence, Government of Republic of Serbia James Appathurai‚ Deputy...

James Appathurai

Zoran Đorđević

Ivica Dačić

Ivan Vejvoda

11:30 - 13:00

Crystal Ballroom

Irena Vojačkova-Sollorano

Vladimir Petronijević

Plenary panel 1: The Great Migration of our times? The Balkans piece in the European puzzle

Discussion Points: Does the current migration and refugee crisis mark the end of the EU as a “Community of values”? How will the current crisis affect the relations between the...

Bojan Brkić

Ahmet Evin

Amb. István Gyarmati

Elizabeth Collett

Rosa Balfour

Irena Vojačkova-Sollorano

Vladimir Petronijević

13:30 - 15:00

Crystal Ballroom

Plenary panel 2: The New European Security Strategy: EU in a global world and its transatlantic partners

(in partnership with the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States) Discussion Points: The EU response to global crises: a strong...

Gordana Delić

Richard Whitman

Bruno Maçães

Amb. Cameron Munter

Antonio Missiroli

François Heisbourg

Thomas Bagger

14:00 - 15:30

Budva Room

Daniela Irrera

James Ker Lindsay

Jim Seroka

Academic Event – Method, Career, and Networking Café

Following the best practices from the previous three years, this year’s Academic event will be complemented with an additional program for PhD students and other interested researchers entitled the Method,...

Daniela Irrera

James Ker Lindsay

Jim Seroka

16:00 – 17:30

Crystal Ballroom

Plenary panel 3: Addressing Political instability and Weak Institutions in South East Europe

Discussion Points: What will be the consequences of BREXIT for Southeastern Europe? How does the expected postponement of EU enlargement affect candidate countries in the region of the Balkans? What...

Judy Dempsey

Alida Vračić

Žarko Puhovski

Remzi Lani

James Ker Lindsay

Thanos Dokos

Maciej Popowski

Sinan Ülgen

18:00-19:30

Crystal Ballroom

Moderator: Damjan Krnjević Mišković

Jasna Plevnik

Zhang Qi

Amb. Cameron Munter

Session 6: Europe and the New Silk Road: Opportunities at Home and Beyond

(in partnership with Centre for International Relations and Sustainable Development – CIRSD) Discussion Points: What is the New Silk Road and China’s views on Europe within it? Is the New...

Moderator: Damjan Krnjević Mišković

Jasna Plevnik

Zhang Qi

Amb. Cameron Munter

18:00-19:30

Kopaonik Room

Robert Kosla, Lt. Col. (Ret.)

Session 4: Two-speed cyber security in the Western Balkans?

(In partnership with Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF)) Discussion Points: How do the existing strategic and legal frameworks for cyber security perform in practice: what...

Franziska Klopfer

Nebojša Jokić

Vladimir Radunović

Olivera Injac

Robert Kosla, Lt. Col. (Ret.)

18:00-19:30

Budva Room

Moderator: Marta Martinelli

André Hahn

Kostis Papaioannou

Theo Koritzinsky

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Session 5: Walking the thin line: democracy and security

(in cooperation with Open Society European Policy Institute) Discussion Points: What are typical/most common strategies used to curtail the democratic governance over the security sectors in Europe? What are critical...

Moderator: Marta Martinelli

André Hahn

Kostis Papaioannou

Theo Koritzinsky

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

18:00-19:30

Beograd Room

Moderator: Sonja Lokar

Meeting: Follow Us: Women Promoting Peace and Security

(Organised by OSCE Mission to Serbia) Background To support the dialogue between Belgrade and Pristina, the OSCE Mission to Serbia and the OSCE Mission in Kosovo launched in 2012 the...

Moderator: Sonja Lokar

Jeta Krasniqi

Dubravka Filipovski

Emilia Redžepi

Dijana Vukomanović

19:40 - 21:00

Beograd Room

Ivan Vejvoda

A conversation with Ivan Vejvoda: The German Marshall Fund’s Young Transatlantic Network

(organised by Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States) TOPIC: Confronting Multiple Challenges: What is the Future of Transatlantic Relations? In an increasingly interconnected...

Ivan Vejvoda

19:40 - 20:40

Crystal Ballroom

Moderator:Florent Marciacq

Dušan Reljić

Eleonora Poli

Hedvig Morvai

Post Paris, Post BREXIT – Perspectives for the Western Balkans

(Organised by CIFE in cooperation with CFA / ÖFZ, IAI and the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisors Group (BiEPAG), with the support of the German Foreign Office / Stability Pact...

Moderator:Florent Marciacq

Dušan Reljić

Eleonora Poli

Hedvig Morvai

8:30 - 9:30

Hotel Hyatt Regency Belgrade

Registration of Participants at Hotel Hyatt Regency

9:30 - 11:00

Crystal Ballroom

Moderator: Filip Ejdus

Francisco de Borja Lasheras

Session 7: What Choices for Countries in Between in an Increasingly Divided Europe?

(In partnership with European Council on Foreign Relations-ECFR) Chatham House Rule Discussion Points: Is it possible for neutral countries to separate military neutrality from the political, and if so,...

Moderator: Filip Ejdus

Francisco de Borja Lasheras

Dejan Jović

Selmo Cikotić

Amb. Ivo Visković

Vessela Tcherneva

9:30 - 11:00

Kopaonik Room

Moderator: Shelley Inglis

Session 8: Opening Democracy for Citizens: Open Government Partnership

(in partnership with UNDP Regional Centre for Europe and the CIS) Chatham House Rule Discussion Points Is it too early in the game? Or have new forms of control already...

Moderator: Shelley Inglis

Goran Buldioski

Đorđe Krivokapić

Tin Geber

Eleanor Stewart

9:30 - 11:00

Budva and Belgrade Rooms

Moderator: Ljubica Gojgić

Session 9: Owners and Editors: the Role of Free Speech in Modern Democracy

(in partnership with the OSCE Mission to Serbia) Discussion Points: If media mirrors a society, what is the current state of media telling us about today’s societies? Has the role...

Moderator: Ljubica Gojgić

Marius Dragomir

Sašo Ordanoski

Tamara Skrozza

Remzi Lani

11:30 - 13:30

Crystal Ballroom

Dragana Pećo

Jeta Xharra

Javier Arizmendi Ruiz

Goran Buldioski

Gordan Bosanac

Plenary panel 4: Will Civil Society Save Democratic Values?

In partnership with the Open Society Institutes’ Think tank Fund) Discussion Points: In the situation of crisis – political, humanitarian, etc. – who is the actor who takes the...

Dragana Pećo

Jeta Xharra

Javier Arizmendi Ruiz

Goran Buldioski

Gordan Bosanac

13:30 - 14:00

Crystal Ballroom

Sonja Licht

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Maja Bobić

Closing Address

Sonja Licht

Sonja Stojanović Gajić