BSF Archive (2020)

Tenth Belgrade Security Forum Officially Closed

For reasons that are well known, the Belgrade Security Forum applied a “hybrid” model of event organization for the first time, having both an online...

Rule of Law Culture Missing, Path to the EU Elusive

In the 2003 EU-Western Balkans Summit in Thessaloniki, the EU made it clear that the prospect of European Enlargement shaped its political commitment towards the...

New Social Contract to Include the Reboot of Trust in Technology

Very complex relationship between technology, trust and legitimacy was examined in the discussion organized in partnership with UNDP. Participants discussed on how to navigate confusing...

Projecting Values in the Media

The importance of values and its influence on media narratives was discussed in a session organized in partnership with the Warsaw Security Forum and support...

Quality to Follow Quantity in Regional Defence Cooperation

Last day of Belgrade Security Forum opened with a discussion on potential similarities and differences in processes of regional defence cooperation among two specific regions,...

26 Oct 2020

Alena Ledeneva: The Limits in Checks and Balances Enable Informal Governance in WB

Informal practices which play significant roles in governance all around the globe are unwritten rules that people use to “get things done” and acquire goods...

23 Oct 2020

Recap of Day 5

Strengthening Liberal Democracies to Curb Populism

BSF 2020 Cas Mudde Populism in 2020 In the last decades, the world has seen an unprecedented rise in populist parties. In this...

Encore America First or Patching Things with Partners: Trump and Biden Fighting Out for Leadership 2020

Currently very important event for the international scene, the election for the President of the United States, was in focus of tonights session. Speakers agreed...

Belgrade-Pristina: No Clear Vision of the Compromise

The much anticipated Special Event of the “Balkans Dialogues Initiative: Belgrade-Pristina: No Trust, No Solution” showed us that the key of making Western Balkan region...

Common Market to Bring Common Ground in the Western Balkans

European Commissioner for Neighbourhood and Enlargement, Olivér Várhelyi, opened today’s discussion on the perspectives and approaches towards the region of the Western Balkans by stating...

Recap of Day 4

Weaponization of Prejudice as Wind Beneath Right-Wings

The panel addressed very important and current topic, the growth of right-wing extremism and speakers discussed the influence of state and media on the spread...

COVID-19 Challenging International Architecture, China Riding the Wave

The fourth day of the 10th Belgrade Security Forum continued with a panel on the influence of the pandemic COVID-19 on the international order and...

Fight Depopulation by Investing in Human Capital

Moderator Mirjana Spoljarić Egger of the UNDP Assistant Administrator and Director of the Regional Bureau for Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States, led a panel...

Rule of Law Crucial for the Western Balkans’ Post-Pandemic Economy

Belgrade Security Forum continued with Dr. David Landsman, Chairman of British Serbian Chamber of Commerce and former British diplomat in Serbia, talking about current economic...

Recap of Day 3

Organized Crime in the Time of COVID-19

Unusual discussion on the effects of Covid-19 on several aspects of organized crime in Europe and the world took place in the closing of the...

Vicious Circle of Anti-Liberal Narratives and Distrust

Although the Western Balkan countries have set out their accession into the EU as their key foreign policy strategy, the region appears to be still...

Belgrade-Pristina: Dialogue about the Dialogue

2020 has been marked by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted all aspects of life, from our daily routines to...

Strong Judiciary to Uncapture States in the Western Balkans

Closing panel of this year’s Academic Event presented different angles and approaches to state capture in Serbia. Tena Prelec, Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group,...

Understanding State Capture

Different theoretical approaches which can be used to explain state capture were discussed at the first Academic Event panel this year. Andrea L. Capusella, London...

Seeking Stability for Western Balkans, Getting State Capture in Return

General debate on this panel was about the influence of the EU and the rest of the international community on conflict-resolution in the Western Balkans...

Two Things We Can Do to Prepare Our Societies for Changing Demographics

by Francine Pickup, UNDP Resident Representative in Serbia Over the last 30 years, 17 countries, all of them in Eastern Europe, experienced sustained population decline....