How does Security Sector Reform Affect Human Security in Serbia? Reassessing the impact on LGBT
16May2016

The Public Policy Research Centre is conducting a research on developments and reforms in the field of policies within the security sector, particularly focuing on the LGBT community as a vulnerable group. The project relies on the CENTRE's dedication to human security and security sector reforms. Also, the project represents a follow-up of the earlier CENTRE's study LGBT and Security Sector Reform in the Republic of Serbia (2011) and a comparative analysis of previous and upcoming results. CENTRE will identify achieved progress in the meantime and the dynamics between of the reforms targeting the LGBT's human security which have been implemented since 2011.

The project aims at increasing public awareness of specific issues aimed at enhancing democratic governance. It will also contribute to developing and strengthening the cooperation between state institutions and civil society in addressing security sector and human security related issues at national and local levels.

The research is grounded in qualitative methods and it will be conducted in five cities in Serbia. The CENTRE's project team consists of Svetlana Djurdjevic-Lukic, Jelena Radoman, Marija Radoman, Jelena Sapic, and Tanja Jakobi. The project is supported by the Organisation for Security and Co-operation un Europe (OSCE).

The 2011 study is the first such analysis which explored the security issues within the LGBT community in Serbia concenring their relationship with the police and military. The results are available in English. 

Documents

LGBT People and Security Sector Reform in the Republic of Serbia How Does the Security Sector Reform Affect Human Security in Serbia: Reassessing the impact of Security Sector Reform on LGBT people

Svetlana Đurđević Lukić Fund: HUMAN SECURITY FOR THE NEW CENTURY

Uncertainty and vulnerability of the individual in the 21st century is the focus of CENTAR’s Human Security Programme. Building on foundations set by the recently departed co-founder and longtime director of CENTAR, Svetlana Đurđević Lukić, CENTAR regards security as a human right and advocates for construing a society in which every individual will have opportunities to reach their potential. Svetlana had a talent of pioneering the introduction of many topics – primarily concerned with the security of vulnerable groups – into security discourse within Serbia. Fostering this approach, starting from 2016, CENTAR, as part of its foundation named after the late Svetlana, holds a competition with the goal of inspiring young researchers to examine modern day threats.