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26 Dec 2014

The Fifth Belgrade Security Forum Announcement

The Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence, the European Movement in Serbia and the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy are organizing the Fifth Belgrade Security Forum...

15 Dec 2014

Belgrade Security Forum 2014 Conference Summary

Belgrade Security Forum 2014 Conference Summary is now available. The organisers are pleased that the 4th Belgrade Security Forum held under the title “Europe 2014: Closure...

02 Oct 2014

BSF Officially Closed

At the end of the final day, closing address was delivered by the representatives of the three organising partners: Ms. Sonja Stojanović Gajić on behalf...

02 Oct 2014

Balkan Express in Five Years and a Day

Western Balkans countries need to work on themselves. Only full cooperation between them is the path towards EU enlargement, even if it happens after 5...

Kalina Yordanova
PhD Candidate, University College London
Gordana Delić
Director, Balkan Trust of Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States (Moderator)
Marko Savković
Project Coordinator, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Dimitar Bechev
Senior Visiting Fellow at the European Institute, London School of Economics (LSE)
Wallace Chwala
University of Nairobi
Marko Milošević
Researcher, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (Moderator)
Joanna Świątkowska
Cyber Security Expert, Kosciuszko Institute
Giselle Laffont
Journalist, Argentina
Andrei Zagorski
Head of Department for Disarmament, Arms Control and Conflict Resolution, Institute for World Economy and World Politics, Russian academy of Sciences; Professor, Moscow State Institute for International Relations (MGIMO-University)
Michal Briatka
Commerce and Contracting Specialist, Commercial and Regulatory Affairs, Eustream, Slovakia
Julian Popov
Fellow, European Climate Foundation
Andreja Bogdanovski
Adjunct Research Fellow, Analytica, Skopje
Dejan Jović
Chief Analyst,Office of the President of the Republic of Croatia (Chair)
Steven Blockmans
Senior Rersearch Fellow and Head of Unit, The Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
H.E. Aleksandar Vučić
Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Serbia
Alex N. Grigorev
President, Council for Inclusive Governance (Moderator)
H.E. Michael Davenport
Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Serbia
Foto Duro
Researcher, Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM), Tirana
Dejan Keserović
Coordinator for Central Asia, International Organisation for Migration (IOM)
Constanze Stelzenmüller
Senior Transatlantic Fellow, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Sonja Stojanović Gajić
Director, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy
Dejan Anastasijević
Brussels correspondent, Tanjug News Service
Vedran Džihić
Senior Researcher, Austrian Institute for International Affairs
Amb. Fred Tanner
Senior Adviser/Liaison to Swiss Chairmanship, Office of the Secretary General, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Oliver Joachim Rolofs
Press Spokesperson and Head of Communications, Munich Security Conference
Gordan Bosanac
Chief Analyst, Centre for Peace Studies, Zagreb
Daniel de Torres
Deputy Head, Operations III, DCAF (Chair)
Dr. Hans Mouritzen, DIIS
Senior Research Fellow, Danish Institute for International Studies
Elisabeth Nauclér
MP, Parliament of Finland
Filip Ejdus
Assistant Professor in Security Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade
Urban Jakša
PhD Fellow, University of York, UK
Vladimir Petronijević
Executive Director, Group 484
Steven Blockmans
Senior Research Fellow and Head of Unit, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)
Alexandria Innes
Lecturer in International Relations, University of East Anglia, UK
Michal Briatka
Commerce and Contracting Specialist, Commercial and Regulatory Affairs, Eustream, Slovakia
Rovshan Ibrahimov
Head of Foreign Policy Analysis Department, Center for Strategic Studies, Azerbaijan
H.E. Giuseppe Manzo
Ambassador of the Republic of Italy in Serbia
Franz-Stefan Gady
Senior Fellow, East West Institute
Marko Sošić
Researcher, Institute Alternativa, Podgorica
Adam Rotfeld
Warsaw University, “Artes Liberales” Department, former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the International Consultative Committee
Ivana Ljubojević
Head of Secretariat, Disaster Preparedness and Prevention Initiative for South Eastern Europe
Vladimir Baranovsky
Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Centre for Situation Analysis (CSA), Member of the Board of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations IMEMO
Valbona Zeneli
Professor, Deputy Director, Program on Central and Southeast Europe, College of International and Security Studies, George C. Marshall Center
Divya Arya
Founder and President of the Intercultural Youth Council
Aleksandar Sazdovski
Consultant, ‘Edinstvena Makedonija’, Skopje
Slobodan Marković
Advisor for ICT Policy and Internet Community Relations, Serbian National Internet Domain Registry (RNIDS)
Agron Bajrami
Editor-in-Chief, Koha Ditore
Franco Frattini
Italian Supreme Administrative Court, Justice and Chamber President
H.E. Michael D. Kirby
U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Serbia
Gordana Čomić
Deputy Speaker, National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia
Jelena Subotić
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University
Vladimir Baranovsky
Russian Academy of Sciences, Director of the Centre for Situation Analysis (CSA), Member of the Board of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations IMEMO
Theresia Töglhofer
Program Officer, Alfred von Oppenheim Center for European Policy Studies, DGAP
Tanja Miščević
Head of the Negotiating Team for Accession of the Republic of Serbia to the European Union
Dejan Guzina
Wilfrid Laurier University
Anna Kiefer
Program Assistant, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Relations
Dejan Komatina
Secretary, International Sava River Basin Commission
H.E. Michael Davenport
Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of Serbia
Amb. Piotr Świtalski
Director of Policy Planning, Council of Europe
Sonja Licht
President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence
Lea David
Postdoctoral Fellow, Strochlitz Institute for Holocaust Research, Haifa University
Mats Persson
Director, Open Europe
Orli Fridman
Giuliano Amato
Judge, Constitutional Court of Italy
Amb. Ivan Jestřáb
Director of the South and South-East Europe Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Czech Republic
Jovana Marović
Researcher, Institute Alternativa
Remzi Lani
Director, Albanian Media Institute
Prof. Iver Neumann, LSE
Montague Burton Professor at London School of Economics; Senior Researcher at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
Vessela Tcherneva
Programmes Director, European Council on Foreign Relations
Zoran Stanojević
News Editor, Radio Television of Serbia, RTS (Moderator)
Marko Đurić
Director, Office for Kosovo and Metohija, Government of the Republic of Serbia
Dušan Šiđanski
Professor, Special Adviser to the President of the European Commission
Hedvig Morvai
Director, European Fund for Balkan
Jim Seroka
Professor of Political Science at Auburn University, Alabama United States of America
Amb. Gérard Stoudmann
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Western Balkans.
John Karlsrud
Senior Research Fellow, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)
Žarko Puhovski
Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb
Shada Islam
Director of Policy, Friends of Europe
Goce Kocevski
Macedonian Young Lawyers Association
Dušan Reljić
Head of Office, German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP) Brussels (Moderator)
François Heisbourg
Foundation pour la Recherché Strategique, Special Advisor
Vladimir Radunović
Coordinator, E-diplomacy Projects, Diplo Foundation (Moderator)
Jacques Rupnik
Director for Researches, Centre for International Studies and Research(CERI)
Amb. Ernst Reichel
German Special Envoy for South-Eastern Europe, Turkey and the EFTA States
Maja Bobić
Secretary General, European Movement in Serbia
Tomasz Żornaczuk
Thinking for Governance Project Coordinator, Polish Institute for International Affairs (Moderator)
Emsad Dizdarević
Researcher/Project Coordinator, Centre for Security Studies, Sarajevo
Goran Svilanović
Secretary General, Regional Cooperation Council
Ayşe Zarakol
University Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Ivana Krstić
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Belgrade (Moderator)
Amb. Miroslava Beham
Senior Advisor on Gender Issues, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Samuel Žbogar
EU Special Representative/Head of EU Office in Kosovo
Giuliano Amato
Judge, Constitutional Court of Italy
Jelena Subotić
Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Georgia State University
Andreja Bogdanovski
Adjunct Research Fellow, Analytica, Skopje
Karen Donfried
President, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Amb. Miroslava Beham
Senior Adviser on Gender Issues, Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE)
Dominika Wozniak
PhD Fellow, Faculty of Journalism and Political Science, University of Warsaw
Elmar Brok
Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee, European Parliament
Ivan Vejvoda
Vice President for Programmes, German Marshall Fund of the United States
Tim Judah
Balkans Correspondent, The Economist
Iver Neumann
Aleksandar Kovačević
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
Želimir Kešetović
Professor, Faculty of Security Studies, University of Belgrade
Ivan Krastev
Chair of the Board, Centre for Liberal Strategies
Predrag Marić
Assistant Minister and Head of Emergency Management Sector, Ministry of Interior, Government of the Republic of Serbia
Hans Mouritzen
Senior Research Fellow, Danish Institute for International Studies
Despina Syrri
Director of the Council of Europe Network School of Political Studies, Greece and President of Symbiosis
Amb. István Gyarmati
President, International Centre for Democratic Transition
Elizaveta Gaufman
Lecturer and PhD candidate, Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen
Ayşe Zarakol
University Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Emmanuel College, University of Cambridge
Hakan Altinay
Non-resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution (Moderator)
Petra Roter
Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Ljubljana
Sinan Ülgen
Chairman, Centre for Economics and Foreign Policy Studies (EDAM)

Agenda

Full agenda

Day 1

30 Sep 2014

Day 2

01 Oct 2014

Day 3

02 Oct 2014

9:00 - 9:30

Registration at Hotel Hyatt Regency

9:30 - 10:00

Beograd and Budva Room

Iver Neumann

Academic Event – Keynote Speech, I Remember When Russia Was a Great Power

Speakers: Keynote Speaker‚ Iver Neumann

Iver Neumann

10:00 - 11:30

Beograd and Budva Room

Academic Event – Panel 1: Theorizing Memory/Security Nexus

Ontological Security in Cases of Diaspora, Conflict, and Collective Memory of Trauma Alexandria Innes Abstract: The political influence of diaspora populations has been widely studied (for example, see King...

Filip Ejdus

Ayşe Zarakol

Hans Mouritzen

Urban Jakša

Jelena Subotić

Alexandria Innes

12:00 - 13:30

Beograd and Budva Room

Academic Event – Panel 2: Memory and Historical Analogies in World Politics

Historical Analogies and Making (Non)sense of the “Rise of the Rest” Ayse Zarakol Abstract: In the last decade, much ink has been spent on the issue of ‘rising powers’...

Orli Fridman

Jelena Subotić

Dominika Wozniak

Elizaveta Gaufman

Ayşe Zarakol

14:30 - 16:00

Beograd and Budva Room

Academic Event – Panel 3: Memory and (in) Security in the Former Yugoslavia

Mediating International and Domestic Demands: State-sponsored Memory Projects in Serbia Lea David Abstract: Just as norm-complying states adapt their practices to expected behaviors, post-conflict states are forced to adapt their...

Petra Roter

Aleksandar Sazdovski

Kalina Yordanova

Lea David

Jim Seroka

17:00-18:30

Beograd Room

Gordana Delić

H.E. Giuseppe Manzo

H.E. Michael Davenport

H.E. Michael D. Kirby

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Goran Svilanović

Transatlantic Trends Report 2014

Organised by the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States Transatlantic Trends is an annual survey of U.S. and European public opinion...

Gordana Delić

H.E. Giuseppe Manzo

H.E. Michael Davenport

H.E. Michael D. Kirby

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Goran Svilanović

19:00

Maja Bobić

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Official Reception

Speakers: Sonja Stojanović Gajić‚ Director, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy Maja Bobić‚ Secretary General, European Movement in Serbia

Maja Bobić

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

20:30

Registration of Participants

21:00

Kalemegdan Room

Ivana Krstić

Despina Syrri

Vladimir Petronijević

Dejan Keserović

Amb. Piotr Świtalski

Session 1: Between Mobilisation and Isolation: EU and Migration Trends

(in cooperation with the Fund for an Open Society in Serbia) Discussion Topics: What are the responses to the refugee crisis in Europe’s neighbourhood, from countries that take in refugees...

Ivana Krstić

Despina Syrri

Vladimir Petronijević

Amb. Piotr Świtalski

21:00

Kopaonik Room

Session 2: The Essential Need to Cooperate: Multi-stakeholders, National and/or Regional Cooperation for Cyber-Security in the Western Balkans

(in partnership with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control and Armed Forces DCAF) Background: Given the global nature of the Internet, efforts at improving Internet governance, including efforts to...

Vladimir Radunović

Slobodan Marković

Joanna Świątkowska

Franz-Stefan Gady

21:00

Budva Room

Andrei Zagorski

Amb. István Gyarmati

Amb. Fred Tanner

Amb. Gérard Stoudmann

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Session 3: The OSCE 40 Years after the Helsinki Accords

Discussion Topics: What remains of the original Helsinki agenda? Which of the original OSCE norms (Helsinki Final Act, The Charter of Paris etc.) still enjoy consensus among its member states?...

Andrei Zagorski

Amb. István Gyarmati

Amb. Fred Tanner

Amb. Gérard Stoudmann

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

21:00

Beograd Room

Session 4: EU Enlargement: Picking Up the Pieces?

(in cooperation with the Delegation of the European Union to the Republic of Serbia) Ten years after the 2004 enlargement the EU now has 28 Member States; 13 new member...

Steven Blockmans

Theresia Töglhofer

Vessela Tcherneva

Amb. Ivan Jestřáb

Maja Bobić

08:00 - 09:00

Registration of Participants

09:00 – 09:10

Crystall Ballroom

Sonja Licht

Welcoming Speech

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

Sonja Licht

09:10 - 09:30

Crystall Ballroom

H.E. Aleksandar Vučić

Keynote Speech

Speakers: H.E. Aleksandar Vučić‚ Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Serbia

H.E. Aleksandar Vučić

09:30 - 11:00

Crystal Ballroom

Plenary Panel 1: Opening the New Strategic Debate Between Transatlantic and Eurasian Agendas

(in partnership with the Balkan Trust for Democracy, a project of the German Marshall Fund of the United States) Discussion Topics: In 2014 is the world entering a new Cold...

Remzi Lani

Shada Islam

Vladimir Baranovsky

Adam Rotfeld

François Heisbourg

Karen Donfried

11:30 - 13:00

Crystal Ballroom

H.E. Michael Davenport

Plenary Panel 2: The EU and its Peripheries

In partnership with the Robert Bosch Stiftung Instability and poverty in large parts of the world, and more specifically in areas known by the very Eurocentric epithet ‘European peripheries’ are...

Dejan Jović

Mats Persson

Ivan Krastev

Sinan Ülgen

Dušan Šiđanski

Tanja Miščević

Elmar Brok

H.E. Michael Davenport

14:00 - 14:45

Budva Room

Prof. Iver Neumann, LSE

Academic Event – Doctoral Seminar on Methodology

On the second day of the BSF, Prof. Dr. Iver Neumann Montague Burton Professor at London School of Economics and also Researcher at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) will...

Prof. Iver Neumann, LSE

15:00 - 16:30

Budva Room

Prof. Iver Neumann, LSE

Academic Event – Interactive Discussion

Prof. Iver Neumann, LSE

15:00 - 16:30

Crystal Ballroom

Amb. Miroslava Beham

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Daniel de Torres

Elisabeth Nauclér

Plenary Panel 3: Could 1325 Be a New Frame of Reference: From Local to Global and Back

(with the support of Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces) UN Security Council Resolution 1325 will turn 15 in 2015. The resolution, sponsored by a globally diverse...

Amb. Miroslava Beham

Constanze Stelzenmüller

Daniel de Torres

Elisabeth Nauclér

17.00 - 18:30

Crystal Ballroom

Evening Panel: Serbs and Albanians in 2025 as Friends and Allies: How do We Get There?

(in partnership with the Council for Inclusive Governance) Discussion Topics: Serbia and Kosovo are neighbors. Despite their fundamental disagreements today and tragic recent history, is it possible to move away...

Amb. Ernst Reichel

Marko Đurić

Samuel Žbogar

Alex N. Grigorev

Besa Shahini

Gordana Čomić

Agron Bajrami

17.00 - 18:30

Kalemegdan Room

Special Side Event:Visegrad Experience for the Western Balkans: NGO Support for Key Reforms

During negotiations the EU pays special attention to chapters 23 and 24: Justice and Home Affairs. Nevertheless, under political criteria, cooperation between the government and civil society of an aspiring...

Tomasz Żornaczuk

Jovana Marović

Goce Kocevski

Marko Savković

17:00 - 18:30

Beograd Room

Special Side Event: Civilian Capacities for Peace Operations – Case of Western Balkans

Discussion Topics: Why are civilian capacities (CIVCAP) for peace operations important? What are the incentives for the use of CIVCAP in peace operations? What are the national niches for civilian...

Marko Milošević

John Karlsrud

Andreja Bogdanovski

Foto Duro

Marko Sošić

Emsad Dizdarević

Gordan Bosanac

17:00 - 18:30

Budva Room

Dr. Hans Mouritzen, DIIS

Prof. Iver Neumann, LSE

Jelena Subotić

Academic Event – Method Café Sessions

Following the best practices from the BSF 2013, this year’s Academic event will be complemented with an additional program for PhD students and other interested researchers entitled the Method Café....

Dr. Hans Mouritzen, DIIS

Prof. Iver Neumann, LSE

Jelena Subotić

20:00

Official Dinner (Upon separate invitation)

Upon separate invitation

9:00 - 10:00

Registration of Participants

10:00 - 11:30

Kopaonik Room

Dušan Reljić

Michal Briatka

Oliver Joachim Rolofs

Rovshan Ibrahimov

Julian Popov

Aleksandar Kovačević

Session 5: Rethinking Energy Security: Balancing Concerns, Managing Expectations

(GLOBSEC Debate in partnership with the Slovak Atlantic Commission) The issue of international energy security is one of the top political issues at the moment in the whole of Europe. The...

Dušan Reljić

Michal Briatka

Oliver Joachim Rolofs

Rovshan Ibrahimov

Julian Popov

Aleksandar Kovačević

10:00 - 11:30

Budva Room

Session 6: Regional Prospects of the Joint Crisis Intervention

Discussion Topics: What are the common lessons and country-specific insights learned from the 2014 flood crisis? What are the best practices for building population resilience? What is the ‘added value’...

Zoran Stanojević

Dejan Komatina

Želimir Kešetović

Ivana Ljubojević

Predrag Marić

10:00 - 11:30

Beograd Room

Session 7: Will the Outcome of the Ukrainian Crisis Determine a New Path for Europe and Beyond?

Discussion Topics: How much has the European Order been challenged since the beginning of the crisis in Ukraine? Is there a way back? How much can the gap in leadership...

Žarko Puhovski

Valbona Zeneli

Franco Frattini

Tim Judah

Dimitar Bechev

Dejan Anastasijević

10:00 - 11:30

Kalemegdan Room

Session 8: Global Civics for/by a Global Youth?

(in cooperation with the Global Civics Academy) For the first time in human history, 20-year-olds around the world share as many interests with each other as they do with the...

Hakan Altinay

Wallace Chwala

Giselle Laffont

Anna Kiefer

Divya Arya

12:00 - 13:30

Crystal Ballroom

Plenary Panel 4: Is It Time For a New Balkans Commission

(in partnership with the European Fund for the Balkans) In 2005, the International Commission on the Balkans, established under the initiative of the Robert Bosch Stiftung, the King Baudouin Foundation,...

Vedran Džihić

Jacques Rupnik

Giuliano Amato

Hedvig Morvai

Dejan Jović

Amb. István Gyarmati

Goran Svilanović

Ivan Vejvoda

13:30 - 14:00

Crystal Ballroom

Maja Bobić

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Sonja Licht

Closing Address

Speakers: Sonja Licht‚ President, Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence Maja Bobić‚ Secretary General, European Movement in Serbia Sonja Stojanović Gajić‚ Director, Belgrade Centre for Security Policy

Maja Bobić

Sonja Stojanović Gajić

Sonja Licht

15:00 - 16:30

Budva Room

Dejan Guzina

Ayşe Zarakol

Academic Event – Career Development

This year’s BSF Academic event will be followed by a new type of session called Career Development Café. With the same structure and the same target group as the Method...

Dejan Guzina