RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation is an international, independent, non-profit, regionally owned, academic organization, with the misssion to foster dialogue and cooperation on security matters in South Eastern Europe through a partnership between the countries of the region and their international partners.
 

Introductory address by Director

Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Colleagues and Friends,

It is my special pleasure to address You after the successful 23rd Meeting of the Multinational Advisory Group, held on the beautiful Montenegrin coast. I consider it an obligation to once again express my genuine appreciation to all MAG Members and all our partner organizations for the outstanding and very considerable ongoing support to RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation.

Complete Introductory address, PDF

Activity Overviews

Chemical Weapons Convention Seminar

Overview, PDF

Basics of SSR, introducing the “Good Governance” Concept

Overview, PDF

Demographic Trends and Social Economical Challenges in SEE

Overview, PDF

Activity Agendas

Chemical Weapons Convention Seminar

Agenda, PDF

Basics of SSR, introducing the “Good Governance” Concept

Agenda, PDF

Demographic Trends and Social Economical Challenges in SEE

Agenda, PDF

Activity Reports

Seminar on better defence resources management: “Pooling and sharing of defence capabilities as smart defence”

Report, PDF

Security Sector Reform in context of PSO

Report, PDF

RACVIAC Cyber Security Project Roundtable

Report, PDF


Newsletter

Newsletter 30/2012Every few months RACVIAC releases its Newsletter, which includes a detailed overview of our activities during the past period, at our Centre as well as abroad. ›› More

Latest News

24 JAN 2012

H.E. Valdet Sadiku visited RACVIAC

The Ambassador of the Republic of Kosovo to the Republic of Croatia, H.E. Mr Valdet Sadiku, visited RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation on 24th January 2012. The occasion of the visit to RACVIAC was the desire expressed by H.E. to make personal acquaintance with RACVIAC’s mission, aims and organization. The guest was welcomed by the Director of RACVIAC Ambassador Nikola Todorčevski, RACVIAC Deputy Director Colonel Željko Cepanec and senior RACVIAC staff members.

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14 Dec 2011

SSR in the context of Peace Support Operations

Seminar entitled „Security Sector Reform in the Context of Peace Support Operation: top down approach“, co-organized by the Peace Support Operations Training Centre (PSOTC), and RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation, took place in Sarajevo from 13 - 15 December 2011. The idea to organise the seminar, initially launched in December 2010 by the PSOTC and RACVIAC, was strongly supported by the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and the Centre for Security Studies Sarajevo.

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13 Dec 2011

Cyber Security Project

A two-day round table entitled RACVIAC Cyber Security Project has started today at RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation. The round table, which has brought together around 50 experts on cyber security and representatives of SEE countries’ state institutions, has been designed so as to comprise presentations by internationally renowned experts in this field, including the representatives of the United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), NATO, the South East European Law Enforcement Centre (SELEC), the Regional Cooperation Council, Cyber DefCon, the Federal Ministry of Defence and Sports of the Federal Republic of Austria and the Bundeswehr Transformation Centre of the Federal Republic of Germany.

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09 Dec 2011

Pooling and Sharing as Smart Defence

A one-day seminar titled “Better Defence Resources Management - Polling and Sharing as Smart Defence” was conducted by RACVIAC - Centre for Security Cooperation on 08 December 2011. This seminar was organized as a follow-up of the “First Regional Meeting of Heads of Procurement Departments” co organized by RACVIAC the Montenegrin Ministry of Defence in April this year. The mentioned meeting had identified pooling and sharing as an important segment of a successful defence resource management in times of depleted defence budgets and severe financial constraints.

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01 Dec 2011

New Agreement enters into force

The Republic of Serbia deposited its instrument of ratification of the Agreement on RACVIAC on 15 November 2011 with the Depositary, Republic of Croatia. With this act the Republic of Serbia has become the fifth signatory State to ratify the document, which was the prerequisite for the Agreement to enter into force. Agreement enters into force today, 01 December 2011. This marks the end of the transformation process of the Centre, started in 2007, whereby RACVIAC – Centre for Security Cooperation becomes legally and formally a very unique international organization promoting enhanced regional security and cooperation through the concept of regional ownership.

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Press Invitation

21-23 February 2012

Chemical Weapons Convention Seminar

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Forthcoming Events

21-23 February 2012

Chemical Weapons Convention Seminar

27-29 February 2012

Basics of SSR, introducing the “Good Governance” Concept

Interview

Interview with Brigadier General Massimo Panizzi, Public Affairs and StratCom Advisor to the NATO Military Committee Chairman and International Military Staff


Can you please explain us NATO Strategic Concept adopted on Lisbon Summit in November 2010, especially in the light of further enlargement?

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Interview with MajGen Torres, the Personal Representative of the OSCE Chairperson-in-Office for Article IV of Annex 1B of the Dayton Peace Accords

Interview with Mr Zoran Šajinović, Assistant Minister for International Cooperation, Ministry of Defense of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Interview with Ms Beverly Mercer, Ambassador of Australia to the Republic of Croatia on the occasion of the workshop on Cluster Munitions.


Programme 2012

RACVIAC’s annual programme of activities includes over 30 activities: seminars, training courses, workshops, conferences, MAG meetings and a number of other extracurricular activities.

In addition to this, RACVIAC also supports activities of other institutions and organisations. And, untill today, RACVIAC has hosted more then 8500 participants on 277 various activities. ›› More