27/01/2015
KCSS researcher Donika Emini has attended the workshop on "Evolving Concepts of Security" organized as part of the European FP7 funded EvoCS project. The workshop took place on 27th January 2015, in Sofia.
This workshop brought together all relevant stakeholders from South-Eastern Europe, specifically around 40 security experts from Bulgaria, the United States of America, Greece, Romania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia aiming to discuss the concept of security by evaluating it across four dimensions: core values, perceptions of security, areas of security and time, threats to them and measures to be taken to protect them.
A specific focus was given to the presentation of the findings on the national concepts of security for Bulgaria, Serbia and Turkey, and discussion on the preliminary findings of EvoCS, the similarities and differences between the three national concepts of security and if the three national concepts of security are sufficient to make up a regional concept of security for the region. KCSS researcher stressed the importance of including Kosovo in the project given the fact that it does represent one of the most important regional security actor, and that it would give the project another perspective as well as different results. The existing triangle of case studies taken in this project would be incomplete without Kosovo given the current relations between Kosovo and Serbia and the international community’s effort to establish regional cooperation in the security sector.
The results of these discussions and analyses will be further used to formulate recommendations for changes in the working parameters of various types of security end-users and will serve as guidelines for policy makers who are responsible for formulating measures that influence an evolving European concept of security.
