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Oct

Resilience in State of Constant Crises

The eighth Belgrade Security Forum titled “Finding Answers Together for the New Normal” was officially closed today after 3 days, 20 panels and sessions, and...

Oct

Unprecedented Changes the 4th Industrial Revolution Brings

Plenary Panel 4th Industrial Revolution moderated by Lazar Džamić, xoogler, lecturer and writer, saw panelist pondering on questions whether the 4th Industrial revolution was real...

Oct

Vulnerability to Disinformation

As Belgrade Security Forum 2018 is coming to an end, we have witnessed one of the most interesting sessions named “Propaganda and Disinformation: Will Technology...

Oct

Kleptocracy Feeding on Low Capacity in Judiciary

One of the most important sessions of the day titled “High-level Corruption and International Security” brought the argument that it should not be waited on...

Oct

More Women: Changing Culture, Building Partnerships

Why more women? “Why not?” moderator Karolina Leaković, Vice-President, Party of European Socialists Women, asked jokingly at the very beginning of the session dedicated to female perspective...

Oct

Think-Tankers Agree: Civil Society Should be More Included

At the panel “Balkans 2025: What kind of future can we expect?” speakers comprised of regional leading think-takers presented their research papers that showed the...

Oct

Serbia in EU is in Everyone’s Best Interest

Germany and the United States have historically played significant roles within the Western Balkans. With recent issues facing the area, specifically “a return of geopolitics,”...

Oct

Unwilling Process of Belgrade-Pristina Dialogue

The dialogue on normalization of relations between Belgrade and Pristina facilitated by the EU is in its eighth year but has been stagnating since the end...

Oct

Still Not There but Asian Century is Coming

At the begging of the third plenary panel a question was raised whether we have really entered the Asian century? Opinions of the speakers were...

Oct

West-Russia Cooperation with Clear Red Lines

The panel Beyond Ideology – West-Russia Relations and Political Pragmatism lacked panelists from the United States of America, so moderator Ms. Gordana Delić, Director of the...

Oct

Populism: Threat or Opportunity for Reinvention of the EU

In light of the new challenges that face the European Union, such as climate change, migration, and the rise of populism, the question of how...

Oct

Better a Giant of Cooperation than a Dwarf of Nationalism

The panel that followed the Grand Opening of the Belgrade Security Forum saw the participation of the presidents of the Republic of Serbia and of...

Oct

Start Treating Bosnia and Herzegovina as Prosperity Worthy

The first session of the BSF 2018 began with the moderator Vedran Džihić, Senior Research, Austrian Institute for International Affairs, asking about oscillations between pessimism...

Oct

What Happens in the Middle East Never Stays in the Middle East

Hakim Khatib, Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Research Institute on Global Islam at the Goethe University Frankfurt, moderator of the Session “The Middle East: Making...

Oct

Change Needed in WB Countries’ and EU’s Attitude towards Enlargement

At the first Belgrade Security Forum plenary panel titled “Balkans 2025” moderated by Zoran Nechev from Center for EU integration, speakers agreed that future is...

Oct

CASE STUDIES OF EU CRISIS RESPONSE

Second panel of this issue of the BSF Academic Event analysed the EU crisis response and border management in Libya, Ukraine, Iraq, Mali, and Afghanistan....

Oct

WITHOUT CONFLICT SENSITIVITY EU’S CRISIS RESPONSE FALLING SHORT

Following the academic panels today focusing on the EU’s crisis response and border management, the panels were concluded by Pernille Rieker and Morten Bøås, both...

Oct

In Search for Coherence in EU Crisis Approach

The first panel of the Academic Event of the Belgrade Security Forum 2018 focused on the aspects of the European Union’s crisis management. The goal...

Oct

Local Consent Essential for Resilient Projects in Crisis

Belgrade Security Forum was open with Academic Event titled “How Conflict Sensitive is EU Crisis Response?” with welcoming words from the organisers. Sonja Stojanović Gajić, of the...

BSF 2018 Special Pre-Event Leadership for a Secure Region

Oct

NATO and Serbia Closely Cooperating for the Progress in the Region

The cooperation between Serbia and NATO in maintaining peace and tranquility as the foundational elements of progress is ever more successful and benefits overall economic...

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg and Prime Minister of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić (Belgrade, November 2015)

Oct

SPECIAL BSF EVENT: Leadership for a Secure Region

Belgrade Security Forum will be hosting a conversation between Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg and President of the Republic of Serbia Aleksandar Vučić on...

Sep

VOLUNTEERS READY FOR THE BSF 2018

Preparatory training for volunteers selected for the 2018 Belgrade Security Forum events was a chance to get to necessary information and skills for organization of...

Jul

BSF Saddened by the News of Thorvald Stoltenberg’s Passing

The Belgrade Security Forum is deeply saddened by the news of of Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg’s passing. Mr. Stoltenberg was a dear friend to our organization...

Jul

Winners of the CfP Announced

One of the BSF strategic goals is to increase the participation of think-tanks (especially those from Balkans) at the BSF, so to promote original knowledge...

Jul

BSF 2018 Volunteer Team Selected

Upon reviewing all the applications and conducting a series of interviews during June, the BSF Team is pleased to announce that 28 volunteers have been...

Jun

Academic Event panelists selected

We are pleased to announce that the participants of the BSF Academic Event 2018 have been selected. This year’s academic event will be organized on...

May

Call for BSF 2018 Volunteers

Deadline extended! New deadline for applications June 15, 2018 at 23:59. The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) are pleased to invite enthusiastic...

Apr

CALL FOR THINK-TANKERS FROM THE BALKANS 2018

The organizers of the Belgrade Security Forum (BSF) are inviting think-tankers from the Western Balkans to provide food for thought papers for discussion on “Balkan...

Apr

CALL FOR PAPERS BSF 2018: How Conflict Sensitive is the EU Crisis Response?

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...

Mar

Eighth Belgrade Security Forum in October on the New Normal

Belgrade Security Forum 2018: Finding Answers Together to the New Normal, to take place from October 17-19 2018, Hotel Hyatt Regency, Belgrade Continuing uncertainty and...

Mar

Towards the “new normal” in international relations?

by Marko Savković, Program Director of the Belgrade Security Forum* When asked on the state of Russia’s relations with the European Union, the director of...

Jan

Oliver Ivanović: A tragic Loss

Shocking news coming from Kosovo* this morning, as we learn that our frequent speaker and participant Mr. Oliver Ivanović, former State Secretary in Ministry for...

Oct

BSF: All About the People

by Svetlana Stefanović, Executive Director, Belgrade Security Forum For a seventh year in a row, Belgrade was on the global map of political debate...

Oct

BSF Closed: We Will Use Your Arguments in Best Way

Keynote address at the closing of the seventh Belgrade Security Forum was given by the President of the Republic of Serbia, Aleksandar Vučić in the...

Oct

BSF Calls for Rebuilding Rule of Law as a Cornerstone of Stability in Europe

The 7th Belgrade Security Forum identified erosion of democracy and rule of law as the main crises in Europe. Deepening and rapidly increasing inequalities left...

Oct

Normalizing Lives Before Politics: Including Women, Civil Society & Citizens in the Dialog

Panel on Belgrade-Pristina dialog was looking for “something new and important” to be said, as implored by Alex Grigorev, the sharp and authoritative moderator of this...

Oct

Trust and Cooperation for Resilient E-Government

During 2016, we witnessed an increased number of large-scale cyber attacks paralyzing governmental services in developed and developing countries equally. This trend is making it...

Oct

Fighting Populism with Actions Not Words

Starting off with a quick poll on questions like Do you live in democracy? How many parties in your country are populist? the panel chair...

Oct

Millennials Going Political

Under the headline “Voices of the Millennials: The Agents of Change” held in partnership with the Regional Youth Leadership Forum the challenges that millennials in...

Oct

Post-Truth: Technology in Service of Manipulation

The panel “Soft Power Revisited: Alternative Facts for a Post-Truth Reality” discussed new political reality in the light of Brexit and the election of Trump,...

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”...

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