CONCLUSIONS OF THE FIFTH BSF
The organizers of the BSF: Belgrade Fund for Political Excellence (BFPE), European Movement of Serbia (EMINS) and Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) issue the... Read More
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Speakers
Zoran Keković
Faculty of Security, University of BelgradeZhidas Daskalovski
University of Kliment Ohridski, MacedoniaŽaneta Ozoliņa
Professor, Department of political science, University of LatviaWilliam Bartlett
Associate Professorial Research Fellow, European Institute, London School of Economics and Political ScienceWallace Chwala
Winner of the United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) and Brookings Institution Speech-writing Contest of the Secretary General of the United NationsVladimir Petronijević
Executive Director, Group 484Vladimir 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 IMEMOVessela Tcherneva
Head of the Wider Europe program, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign RelationsTobias Flessenkemper
Senior Associate Researcher am Centre International de Formation Européenne (CIFE)Timur Makhmutov
Deputy Director of Programs, Russian International Affairs CouncilTim Judah
Balkan Correspodent, The EconomistTeija Tiilikainen
Former State Secretary, Director of the Finnish Institute of International AffairsTed Whiteside
Acting Assistant Secretary General for Public Diplomacy, NATOTamir Waser
Political Adviser, US Mission to NATOSonja Stojanović Gajić
Director, Belgrade Centre for Security PolicySonja Licht
President of the Belgrade Fund for Political ExcellenceSimona Miculescu
Director, UN Office in BelgradeShelley Inglis
Head of the Governance and Peace-building Team, UNDPSharyl Cross
Director of the Kozmetsky Center at St. Edward's University, Austin, USA and Global Policy Fellow, Kennan Institute Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DCSelmo Cikotić
Dean, American School of Government, American University in BiHSandra Breka
Senior Vice President of the Robert Bosch FoundationSamuel Žbogar
EU Special Representative/Head of EU Office in KosovoRositsa Dzhekova
Coordinator, Security Program, Center for the Study of Democracy, SofiaRoozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker
University of Surrey, UKRihards Bambals
University of Latvia, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Young Expert’s NetworkRemzi Lani
Director, Albanian Media InstituteRamadan Ilazi
Deputy Minister of European Integration, Government of KosovoRaffaele Marchetti
LUISS Guido Carli, ItalyRadoš Đurović
Executive Director, Asylum Protection CenterPavol Demeš
Senior Transatlantic Fellow, the German Marshall Fund of the United StatesPanagiota Manoli
University of the Aegean, Greece, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Young Expert’s NetworkOya Dursun-Özkanca
Elizabethtown College, USANik Gowing
International Broadcaster and Visiting Professor in War Studies, Kings College LondonNataša R. Ignjatović
Superintendent of Department for monitoring and oversight of private security and detectives in Police Department and Head Police AdvisorMonika Sus
Hertie School of Governance, GermanyMladen Ivanić
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and HerzegovinaMiro Miskin
Head of Security and Internal Control, Security and Internal Control, M:telMiloš Popović
Central European University, HungaryMilica Uvalić
Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Perugia, ItalyMarko Đurić
Director, Government of Serbia Office for Kosovo and MetohijaMarcus Felsner
Chairman, Osteuropaverein (the Eastern Europe Business Association of Germany)Maja Kovačević
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, SerbiaMaja Bobić
Secretary General, European Movement in SerbiaLjubiša Mijačić
Researcher and Advisor on Project Development, Zubin PotokLeon Malazogu
Executive Director, Democracy for Development, PrištinaKrenar Gashi
Ghent University, BelgiumKarsten Friis
Senior Adviser, Head of the Research Group for Security and Defense, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)Karsten Friis
Senior Advisor, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)Julian Popov
Fellow, European Climate Foundation; Chairman, Board of Directors, Buildings Performance Institute Europe (BPIE)Jozef Bátora
Comenius University, SlovakiaJozef Bátora
Comenius University, SlovakiaJozef Bátora
Comenius University, SlovakiaJelena Žarković Rakić
Director, Foundation for the Advancement of Economics (FREN), Belgrade, SerbiaJames Sherr
Associate Fellow, Russia and Eurasia Program, Chatham HouseIvan Vejvoda
Senior Vice President of the German Marshall Fundİsmail Yaylacı
Assistant Professor, İstanbul Şehir UniversityIrena Vojáčková-Sollorano
UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Representative, SerbiaIlir Deda
Member of Assembly of Kosovo (Self-Determination Movement)Hedvig Morvai
Executive Director, European Fund for BalkansHanna Shelest
NGO “Promotion of Intercultural Cooperation”, Ukraine, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Young Expert’s NetworkH.E. Momir Udovički
Ambassador of the Republic of Serbia to NATOH.E. Milan Simurdić
Ambassador of Republic of Serbia to Norway and IcelandH.E. Michael Davenport
Head of the European Union Delegation to the Republic of SerbiaH.E. Axel Dittmann
Ambassador of Germany to SerbiaH.E. Aleksandar Vučić
Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of SerbiaGorislav Papić
Editor, Radio Television of SerbiaGordana Čomić
Deputy Speaker, National Assembly of the Republic of SerbiaGoran Buldioski
Director of the Think Tank Fund, Open Society FoundationsGiselle Wilz
Commander, NATO Sarajevo HQGesine Schwan
President of the Humboldt-Viadrina Governance Platform; Chairwoman of the Basic Values Commission of the Social Democratic Party of GermanyGarret Tankosić-Kelly
Principal and Founder, SEE Change NetFranz-Stephan Gady
Senior Fellow, East-West InstituteFrançois Heisbourg
Chairman of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and of the Geneva Centre for Security PolicyFranco Frattini
President of the Italian Society for International Organizations (SIOI)Florian Qehaja
Executive Director, Kosovar Centre for Security Studies, PristinaFlorian Bieber
Professor of Southeast European Studies and director of the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of GrazFilip Ejdus
Assistant Professor in Security Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of BelgradeElmar Brok
Member of the European Parliament, Chairman of the European Parliament Committee on Foreign AffairsElisabeth Nauclér
MP, Parliament of FinlandDukagjin Gorani
Chairman, Common Voice, KosovoDespina Syrri
Expert Advisor, Regional Cooperation CouncilDejan Pavlović
Deputy Director, Function for Corporate Protection, NISDejan Jović
Professor, Faculty of Political Science, University of ZagrebDejan Jović
Professor of International Relations, University of ZagrebDaniel Mondekar
President of the Committee for European Integration, the Croatian ParliamentCristian Nitoiu
London School of Economics, UKClaudia Major
Senior Associate, International Security, SWP BerlinChristian Danielsson
Director General for Neighbourhood and Enlargement negotiations, DG NEAR, European CommissionBranimir Bekić
Security Director/CSO, Vojvodjanska banka member of NBG groupAsle Toje
Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in OsloAnna Terrón i Cusí
President of InStrategiesAndriy Veselovsky
Member, Advisory Board, Institute for Social and Economic StudiesAndrej Rupnik
Senior Advisor, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control and Armed Forces (DCAF) LjubljanaAndrei 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)Ana Isabel Xavier
Nova University, PortugalAmb. Roksanda Ninčić
State Secretary, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Republic of SerbiaAmb. Jonathan Moore
Head of OSCE Mission to Bosnia and HerzegovinaAmb. István Gyarmati
President, International Centre for Democratic TransitionAmb. Gérard Stoudmann
Special Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for the Western BalkansAmb. Cameron Munter
Chief Executive Officer, EastWest InstituteÁlvaro De Vasconcelos
Director of Projects for the Arab Reform InitiativeAlexander Graef
University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, Friedrich Ebert Foundation Young Expert’s NetworkAlex Roinishvili Grigorev
President, Council for Inclusive GovernanceAleksandar Kovačević
Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy StudiesAlastair Crooke
Founder and Director, Conflicts ForumAlan Bryden
Assistant Director and Head of the Public-Private Partnerships Division, Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control and Armed Forces (DCAF)Adam Rotfeld
Professor, Warsaw University; Co-Chairman, Polish-Russian Group, Difficult Matters; Commissioner, Euro-Atlantic Security Initiative Commission
Agenda
Day 1
30 Sep 2015
Day 2
01 Oct 2015
Day 3
02 Oct 2015
8:30 - 9:00
9:00 - 9:05
Welcoming Speech
Speakers: Filip Ejdus‚ Assistant Professor in Security Studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade
Filip Ejdus
Keynote Speech, The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism in Europe
Speakers: Asle Toje‚ Research Director at the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Oslo
Asle Toje
9:30 - 11:00
Beograd and Budva Rooms
Academic Event – Panel 1: Rethinking EU’s Foreign Policy
Rethinking the European Union’s Enlargement and Neighbourhod Policy: Lessons from California Roozbeh B. Baker, University of Surrey, UK Abstract: The past several years have seen the clear limitations of... Read More
Rihards Bambals
Jozef Bátora
Ana Isabel Xavier
Raffaele Marchetti
Monika Sus
Roozbeh (Rudy) B. Baker
11:30 - 13:00
Beograd and Budva Rooms
Academic Event – Panel 2: The EU and the Post-Soviet Space
The Garbage Can Model of European Neighborhood Policy: The Case of Ukraine Jozef Bátora, Comenius University, Slovakia Abstract: Jozef Bátora, Comenius University, Slovakia and Pernille Rieke, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs... Read More
Alexander Graef
Miloš Popović
Panagiota Manoli
Hanna Shelest
Cristian Nitoiu
Jozef Bátora
14:00 - 15:30
Beograd and Budva Rooms
Academic Event – Panel 3: The EU and the Western Balkans
The EU Foreign Policy as Mediation: The Case of Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue Krenar Gashi, Ghent University, Belgium Abstract: Krenar Gashi, Ghent University, Belgium and Vjosa Musliu, Ghent University, Belgium Solving Problems in... Read More
Karsten Friis
Dejan Jović
Maja Kovačević
Oya Dursun-Özkanca
Zhidas Daskalovski
Krenar Gashi
16:00 - 16:30
Session 1: Kosovo and Serbia – How Much Longer Before Normality?
In partnership with: the Council for Inclusive Governance (cigonline.net) Sixteen years after the end of the Kosovo conflict and two years after the signing of the Brussels Agreement, the normalization... Read More
Alex Roinishvili Grigorev
Ljubiša Mijačić
Dukagjin Gorani
Ilir Deda
Ramadan Ilazi
Marko Đurić
Samuel Žbogar
Gordana Čomić
Session 2: Corporate Security – The Challenge of Good Management
In partnership with M:tel a.d. Banja Luka A survey undertaken in 2012 showed how senior managers saw cybersecurity, violence in the workplace, an organization’s resilience and the way it selects... Read More
Gorislav Papić
Miro Miskin
Dejan Pavlović
Zoran Keković
Side Event: Book Presentation – “The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia”
The European Union is a transformational polity challenging diplomacy as an institutionalized order. This book “The European External Action Service: European Diplomacy Post-Westphalia” reviews the conceptual origins of the EU’s diplomatic... Read More
David Spence
Jozef Bátora
The Berlin Process in Belgrade: The EU as a Peace Project Revisited in the Western Balkans
In partnership with: the European Fund for the Balkans (www.balkanfund.org) In the final declaration of the Western Balkans Summit, six Western Balkan countries that are not yet EU members –... Read More
Sonja Licht
Florian Bieber
Ivan Vejvoda
Daniel Mondekar
Leon Malazogu
Dejan Jović
Mladen Ivanić
Alex Roinishvili Grigorev
Christian Danielsson
Selmo Cikotić
Ramadan Ilazi
Remzi Lani
Hedvig Morvai
20:30 - 21:00
Hotel Hyatt Regency Belgrade
Session 3: Here to Stay? The Rise of Inequality and Persistence of Poverty
In recent years income inequality has emerged as a political issue par excellence. Piketty’s history of wealth and income inequality in Europe and the United States Capital in the Twenty-First... Read More
Jelena Žarković Rakić
Tobias Flessenkemper
William Bartlett
Milica Uvalić
Session 4: Countering the Tide of Radicalization: In Search of a Comprehensive Response
In partnership with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control and Armed Forces (DCAF) With the devastating results of the recent wars in the Middle East, and with the apparent... Read More
Karsten Friis
Franz-Stephan Gady
Andrej Rupnik
Alastair Crooke
Florian Qehaja
21:00 - 22:30
Kopaonik Room
Session 5: Towards a Sustainable Future – Gender Equality in Inclusive Societies
With 2015 slowly coming to a close, it is the perfect time to look back on the Millenium Declaration (2000), and its implications for the creation of a truly inclusive... Read More
Irena Vojáčková-Sollorano
Wallace Chwala
Simona Miculescu
Shelley Inglis
Elisabeth Nauclér
8:20 - 9:20
Hotel Hyatt Regency Belgrade
9:30 - 11:00
Crystal Ballroom
Plenary Panel 1: Reaffirmation of OSCE’s Role in Conflict Management
Forty years after the adoption of the Helsinki Final Act, the OSCE seems to have reemerged from the margins of international relations. This organization has survived difficult times since the... Read More
Nik Gowing
Teija Tiilikainen
Amb. István Gyarmati
Amb. Jonathan Moore
Amb. Gérard Stoudmann
Amb. Roksanda Ninčić
Plenary Panel 2: The Future of Political Islam in Europe
With the downfall of Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the militant approach of Islamists in Iraq, Syria and Libya, many analysts say the future of political Islam in the Arab... Read More
François Heisbourg
Tim Judah
İsmail Yaylacı
Álvaro De Vasconcelos
14:30 - 16:00
Crystal Ballroom
Plenary panel 3: The Crisis in Ukraine – Lessons (not) Learned from the Western Balkans
Could we have anticipated the Ukrainian conflict? A country nestled between two political blocks – one established and enlarged, the other still establishing (and enlarging?) – with deep internal divisions... Read More
Vessela Tcherneva
James Sherr
Andriy Veselovsky
Andrei Zagorski
Ted Whiteside
16:30 - 18:00
Crystal BallRoom
Session 6: Germany, the Reluctant Leader of Europe?
The word “reluctant” has been used extensively in describing Germany’s role in Europe. The question this adjective begs is how did it come about that Germany became the single leader... Read More
Sandra Breka
Elmar Brok
Adam Rotfeld
H.E. Axel Dittmann
Amb. Cameron Munter
François Heisbourg
16:30 - 18:00
Budva and Beograd Rooms
Session 7: Keeping NATO Strong and Relevant: What Priorities Toward the Warsaw Summit 2016?
In partnership with the German Marshall Fund of the United States/Balkan Trust for Democracy As the world becomes an ever smaller and faster... Read More
Claudia Major
Tamir Waser
Giselle Wilz
H.E. Momir Udovički
Ivan Vejvoda
Session 8: Privatization of Security in Transforming Societies – Main Challenges to Democratic Governance
Presentation of the results of region-wide research In partnership with the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces DCAF The number of private security companies (PSCs) is growing... Read More
Alan Bryden
Branimir Bekić
Nataša R. Ignjatović
Rositsa Dzhekova
19:00 - 20:00
Special Side Event: Awarding of the Honorary Citizen of Belgrade Title to Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg
(Upon Separate Invitation) Thorvald Stoltenberg represents one of the key international figures whose personal history is inextricably linked to the history of Yugoslavia and Serbia. Few know that first contact... Read More
21:00
BSF Gala dinner (Upon separate invitation)
Upon separate invitation
8:30 - 9:30
Hotel Hyatt Regency Belgrade
Session 9: The Russian Dilemma: What Kind of International Order is Russia Seeking?
The international order defined by the West is no longer a premise simply taken for granted by the “rest” of the world. Not surprisingly, Russia has its own ideas of... Read More
Vladimir Baranovsky
Pavol Demeš
Timur Makhmutov
Sharyl Cross
Marcus Felsner
Session 10: New Ways of Energy Exploitation: Changing the Habitat for Good or Bad
Investment in the energy sector(s) in the countries of South East Europe (SEE) is increasing. Largely outdated and inefficient energy systems are in dire need of repair and modernization. Markets... Read More
H.E. Milan Simurdić
Julian Popov
Aleksandar Kovačević
Garret Tankosić-Kelly
Session 11: When Nations Move: The Failure of Migration Policies
More than 350,000 people entered the EU since the beginning of the year. Some call them migrants, some call them refugees, but the essence is that these people have left... Read More
Vladimir Petronijević
Despina Syrri
Radoš Đurović
Anna Terrón i Cusí
11:30 - 13:30
Crystal Ballroom
Plenary Panel 4: Improving the European Model of Governance: Ways Forward
According to the Copenhagen criteria, countries that wish to join the European Union have to meet the highest standards of democratic governance and human rights. The doors of the EU... Read More
Goran Buldioski
Žaneta Ozoliņa
Gesine Schwan
Franco Frattini
H.E. Michael Davenport
Keynote Address
Crystall Ballroom Speakers: H.E. Aleksandar Vučić‚ Prime Minister, Government of the Republic of Serbia
H.E. Aleksandar Vučić
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
Sonja Stojanović Gajić
Maja Bobić
Sonja Licht
