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ALARMING RESULTS OF RESEARCH IN SCHOOLS IN FIVE MULTIETHNIC MUNICIPALITIES – HIGH INTERETHNICAL DISTANCE BETWEEN STUDENTS The Research Center Defence and Security  conducted a research on “Interethnic distance, violence and violent extremism leading to terrorism.” The research was conducted in five multiethnic municipalities. It included the population of primary and secondary schools in Subotica, Sombor, Novi Sad, Bački Petrovac and Bujanovac. A total of 900 students were interviewed. The Ministries of Education, Science and Technological Development supported this research. Some results of this research are alarming, above all, the interethnic distance is still great 20 years after the disintegration of Yugoslavia. The greatest distance is towards Roma and Albanians, and also Albanian children towards all other nationalities. The students answered in most cases that they did not want to associate with Roma and Albanians or to establish closer emotional ties with them. This points to the deep divisions that exist in the school period, which is unacceptable if we are to build a harmonious and democratic society in the future. The second part of the research was related to school violence, extremism and terrorism. For us as a security organization, it was important to determine how young people react to violent behavior, weapons and whether they know what terrorism is. The research showed that as many as 51% of students were violent, whether verbally, physically or in some other way, but this data is certainly worrying, because it is about more than half of the students. Also, 7% of them stated that they own cold weapons and 12% that they want to acquire it. We already have 17% of respondents who hit someone and 5% who would be violent towards teachers, and 14% are sometimes exposed to harassment from other young people at school or in their free time. While […]

On Monday, June 18, 2018, at the UNS press center, the Research Centre for Defence and Security organized a conference on the occasion of the research “Compulsory military service” and on the occasion of the presentation of the magazine “Defence and Security”. Jasmina Andrić, Vice President of the Research Center for Defence and Security and editor of the magazine “Defence and Security”, Aleksandar Živković, State Secretary at the Ministry of Defence, prof.Dr. and retired general, Bozidar Forca, columnist for the magazine “Defence and Security”, as well as retired major general and head of the Military Academy, Vidosav Kovacevic. The field research was conducted on a sample of 1,117 citizens in 11 municipalities and cities in Serbia, and 1,382 more were interviewed on the magazine’s Internet portal. The survey was conducted by gender and age structure, and the results show that 74% of citizens voted for the reintroduction of compulsory military service.

Members of the Research Center for Defense and Security, Miloš Tišma and Jasmina Andrić participated in two-day consultations in Sofia within the Bulgarian Presidency of the European Union. At this high-level event, where we were the only representatives from Serbia, we went to the invitation of the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense Representatives of the EU, NATO, EULEX-A, EUFOR-A, OSCE, the Ministries of Defense of States from the region and the European states, as well as many experts in the field and security participated in the festive reception as well as the three panels during the two-day consultations and defense. The aim of this gathering was to present challenges, risks, threats and development of defense and security institutions in Western Balkan countries to representatives of security and defense systems of EU countries and other participants, and the development of cooperation between EU countries and the Western Balkans. ICOB members attracted a lot of attention from more than 70 delegates who participated in panel discussions and discussions. The common conclusion of all panels is that it is necessary to work on greater confidence in the region of the so-called Western Balkans in order to build cooperation and strengthen the capacities of security and defense institutions. This way we would like to inform the local public about our delegation at this event that was organized to meet the EU and Western Balkans summit. We want to emphasize that it took a lot of courage to present a different attitude from all those present, for us this was a great challenge to defending the policy of military neutrality and the interests of Serbia among the supporters of a different policy. We consider that we have defended this policy with dignity and adequately presented Serbia. We thank the Bulgarian Ministry of Defense for the invitation […]

The Defense and Security Research Center has been working on training of employees in the municipalities of Serbia for the third year in a row through the project “Knowledge of Security”. This time, in cooperation with the Pozega municipality training on cyber security and information system security and prevention of terrorism, employees of public companies from this municipality passed through. Members of local self-government are familiar with potential threats, are trained to recognize the operation of terrorists at the local level, how to protect computer networks and how to act in the event of a terrorist attack or some other emergency situation. Lectures were held by experts for various security areas Miloš Tišma, Jasmina Andrić and Stefan Nicović. The response of the trainees was as great as the interest in participating in the discussion. By participating in this project, the municipality of Požega has shown that it is concerned about the security and protection of its citizens by raising the security culture at the local level. In this way we thank the Municipality of Požega for hospitality and we hope for future cooperation.

On March 5, 2018, organized by the Faculty of Strategic and Operational Management and the Faculty of Business Studies and Law, the second national scientific conference entitled “Contemporary Issues and Possible Strategies and Strategic Management Solutions” was successfully realized. This scientific meeting was marked by discussion and dialogue on current issues in the domain of strategy, security strategy and strategic management. Miloš Tišma and Jasmina Andrić, as representatives of the Research Center for Defense and Security, took part in a scientific conference presenting their scientific work. At this scientific conference, university professors, eminent experts from the country and abroad and future PhD candidates took part. The main goal of the scientific meeting was that the authors of the papers, as well as other participants, present their own opinions and results of the research, as well as to provide modern and possible solutions through a constructive dialogue of the offer and provide scientific and professional recommendations for the further development of the mentioned area.