ACCOUNTABILITY, CONTROL AND OVERSIGHT OF THE PRIVATE SECURITY SECTOR

KCSS research team composed of senior researcher Mentor Vrajolli, and researcher Donika Emini accompanied by Granit Hasani, the general director of BESA Security are participating in the regional experts’ roundtable in Belgrade. The roundtable is being organized by the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Force (DCAF) in the framework of the multi-year project called the Private Security Research Collaboration Southeast Europe (PSRC).

This event brings together all four partner organizations implementing the project as following: Kosovar Centre for Security Studies (KCSS), Institute for Democracy and Mediation (IDM), Belgrade Centre for Security Police (BCSP) and Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD). In addition, a wide-range of experts working in the state institutions and private security companies from the region and the EU countries are joining the event to give their contribution to this discussion.

In the Roundtable on Private Security Accountability, Control and Oversight, the PSRC researchers are expected exchange their findings on accountability challenges and gaps in control and oversight systems in Albania, Bulgaria, Kosovo and Serbia with other private security experts (researchers, practitioners and regulators) from Europe to discuss national similarities and differences in approaches to understanding private security accountability and controlling and overseeing PSCs. At the same time, they will use the event to gather general and country specific conclusions on needs and policy recommendations for their respective governments.