Security Community Practices in the Western Balkans (PDF)

Sonja Stojanovic Gajic is Director at the Belgrade Centre for Security Policy. She has more than fifteen years' experience of working on security sector reform programs with particular focus on police reform, gender and security sector reform (SSR). Her original contribution is development of methodology for measuring security sector reform (SSR) from the perspective of civil society tested in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro and Serbia. She has published internationally on policing, women, peace and conflict resolution. Some of her recent publications are: Women, Peace and Security in the Western Balkans (ed. with Gorana Odanovic), Policing in Serbia: Negotiating the Transition between Rhetoric and Reform (with Mark Downes) that appeared in the book Policing Developing Democracies (Routledge 2008). Prior to her current post, Sonja had worked for the OSCE Mission to Serbia and Montenegro in the strategic management program for the Serbian and Montenegrin police services. In the period of 2006-2011, Ms. Stojanovic Gajic worked part-time as a teaching assistant for security studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade. Sonja holds an MA in Politics, Security and Integration with distinction from the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University College London and she is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Belgrade.