3. 3. 2017 | IECEU, PR
Centre for European Perspective has together with University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Social Sciences, prepared and published an article within Slovenian Ministry of Defence Monthly Journal Slovenska vojska.
Article tackles the effectiveness of an operation that European Union launched in Bosnia and Herzegovina titled Operation Althea, on 2 December 2004, 9 years after the war ended. EUFOR Althea is a military operation and up until now the longest CSDP operation in its history. For assessing effectiveness, the article draws lessons from the findings of the research of EUFOR Althea’s capabilities. Article argues that the biggest unresolved question of the operation, and the one that is the hardest to eliminate, are the disparities in EU member countries opinion regarding scope of the operation and its aims.
Article available at: http://www.mo.gov.si/fileadmin/mo.gov.si/pageuploads/revija_sv/2017/sv_17_2.pdf.
Članek o uspešnosti operacije EUFOR Althea v Bosni in Hercegovini
Center za evropsko prihodnost je v sodelovanju z Univerzo v Ljubljani, Fakulteto za družbene vede, pripravil članek, ki je bil objavljen v reviji Slovenska vojska. Članek analizira uspešnost operacije EUFOR Althea, ki jo je EU vzpostavila v BiH 2. decembra 2004, 9 let po koncu vojne. EUFOR Althea je vojaška operacija ter do danes najdlje trajajoča SVOP operacija. Za potrebe analize so bili vzpostavljeni tako imenovani kriteriji/indikatorji za merjenje uspešnosti, pri oceni učinkovitosti pa članek črpa zaključke iz ugotovitev raziskave o zmogljivostih operacije. Članek izpostavlja, da je največje nerešeno vprašanje operacije, ki ga je hkrati tudi najtežje odpraviti, neenotnost v pogledih držav članic EU na obseg in delovanje misije, pa tudi glede njenih ciljev.
Članek je dostopen na: http://www.mo.gov.si/fileadmin/mo.gov.si/pageuploads/revija_sv/2017/sv_17_2.pdf.
1. 3. 2017 | PR
On 28th of February we have hosted Mr Jawhar Sircar, former State Secretary of India for Culture and CEO of Prasar Bharati, the largest public broadcasting service in the world.
Mr Sircar is paying a visit to Slovenia and lectures at various universities and organizations. During his visit he also visited CEP, where in a two-hour relaxed conversation he touched upon the relations between India and China; economic situation of India, its development and relations with neighboring countries as well as the EU and America. The debate tackled problem prioritizing in India, which is quite different from those of the rest of the world, as well as the media and the development of social networks in India.
Obisk nekdanjega indijskega ministra za kulturo g. Jawharja Sircarja
28. februarja smo na gradu Jable gostili nekdanjega indijskega ministra za kulturo, g. Jawharja Sircarja, ki se mudi na obisku v Sloveniji ter predava po različnih univerzah ter organizacijah. V sklopu svojega obiska je obiskal tudi CEP, kjer se je v dve-urnem sproščenem pogovoru dotaknil odnosov med Indijo in Kitajsko; ekonomskega stanja Indije, njenega razvoja ter odnosov s sosednjimi državami ter EU in Ameriko. Prav tako je debata nanesla na prioritizarnje težav, ki se v Indiji precej razlikujejo od tistih po svetu, pa tudi na medije in razvitost socialnih omrežij v Indiji.
27. 2. 2017 | LET4CAP, PR
Centre for European Perspective participated at a kickoff meeting of Law Enforcement Training for Capacity Building – LET4CAP project 21 February at Centre of Excellence for Stability Police Units (CoESPU) in Vicenza, Italy.
The project will last for 30 months and consortium consists of 5 organisations, selected based on their unique expertise and mandate. LET4CAP is coordinated by Carabinieri’s Center of Excellence for Stability in Police Units (CoESPU) and Studiare Sviluppo, while it also includes Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA), Polish National Police and CEP.
Overall objective of the project is to contribute towards a more consistent and efficient assistance in law enforcement capacity building to third countries through EU’s Common Security and Defence Policy missions. Project will contribute to the harmonization of a training package for law enforcement officers and to the development of a common law enforcement capacity building culture through training interventions and an eLearning module.
25. 1. 2017 | IECEU, PR
Centre for European Perspective (CEP) organised an End User Advisory Working Group today in cooperation with University of Ljubljana.
It presented the preliminary findings of IECEU project research on eight different CSDP missions to representatives of Slovenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Defence and Slovenian Armed Forces. The representatives were particulary interested in the case of Kosovo and Bosnia and Herzegovina. They provided valuable and relevant comments, feedback as well as recommendations for continuation of the project. The importance of such research and their interest in the final results was particularly stressed.
17. 1. 2017 | IECEU, PR
As civilian input in crisis management is constantly increasing, there is a growing demand for civilian experts to be sent to civilian missions. Regardless of how skilled the expert is at its domestic work, when an individual is sent to either EU, OSCE or UN mission, he or she will certainly meet a very different environment and challenges in the field in which he has little or no experience in. As selected candidates are usually deployed on short notice, it is of major importance that they are adequately trained to face the issues that are relevant to their field work.
One of essential topics is to understand intercultural competences in civilian crisis management and conflict environment. All selected candidates should be aware of possible sources of tension due to different cultural backgrounds and yet be able to communicate clearly with interlocutors representing their own organisation, other international organisations, local state authorities, the civil society and the local population as a whole. Each mission member should be familiar with basic techniques to identify and overcome culture-related barriers as well as a ‘culture shock’ and how to de-escalate related interpersonal conflicts.
Centre for European Perspective (CEP) developed an e-learning module on Inter-Cultural Competence in close cooperation with More Europe in the ENTRi framework. This e-learning module is dedicated to recognizing and analysing intercultural challenges in order to better understand cultural differences. You are welcome to try it on this link: http://www.entriforccm.eu/Intercultural-Competence_HTML5_v05/index.html. Feel free to share it!
3. 1. 2017 | PR, Slovenian Development Assistance
In the framework of the project of International Development Cooperation of the Republic of Slovenia with the Republic of Serbia, which is led by the Agency for fight against corruption on the Serbian side, the test application for monitoring of financial flows of public administration is successfully developed. The demonstration of the test application took place in Serbia in the period between 20 and 22 December 2016 when representatives of the public administration of the Republic of Serbia tested the test application also on practical cases prepared and presented by the Slovenian experts from IT area and National Investigation Bureau/Police of the Republic of Slovenia.
Representatives of the institutions of public administration of the Republic of Serbia expressed satisfaction with the characteristic of the developed test application and confirmed it is useful yet simple tool, which can ease and simplify their work while at the same time achieving better work results in less time and with less costs. In the workshop, the participants assessed how to complement the application to make it even more useful for various purposes and responsibilities. Useful suggestions provided representatives from the Agency for the fight against corruption, Agency for Business Registers, Ministry of Public Administration and Local Self-Government – Directorate for E-Government, Ministry of Interior, State Audit Institution, Administration of the Prevention of Money Laundering, Administration for Public Procurement, Ombudsman and others.
In the year 2017 the project moves into its third phase when the development of the application continues with: implementation of findings from the test workshop while involving relevant stakeholders of the public administration of the Republic of Serbia, optimisation of functions and content of the application, adding data bases and other activities, needed for the finalisation of the application.
The project is part of the programme activities funded by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Slovenia with funds for international development cooperation and it is implemented in the cooperation with the Public Payments Administration of the Republic of Slovenia, Slovenian IT Company ZZI, Ministry of Interior and Police of the Republic of Slovenia.
Uspešno testiranje testne aplikacije za spremljanje finančnih tokov javne uprave Republike Srbije
V okviru projekta Mednarodnega razvojnega sodelovanja Republike Slovenije z Republiko Srbijo, katerega nosilec na srbski strani je Agencija za boj proti korupciji, je uspešno izdelana testna aplikacija za spremljanje finančnih tokov javne uprave. Demonstracija testne aplikacije je potekala v Srbiji v času med 20. – 22. decembrom 2016, ko so predstavniki javne uprave Republike Srbije aplikacijo tudi testirali na praktičnih primerih, ki so jih pripravili in vodili slovenski strokovnjaki iz IT področja in Nacionalnega preiskovalnega urada/Policije Republike Slovenije.
Predstavniki javne uprave Republike Srbije so izrazili zadovoljstvo nad karakteristikami razvite testne aplikacije in potrdili, da gre za učinkovito a hkrati enostavno orodje, ki lahko lajša in poenostavlja njihovo delo ob hkratnem doseganju boljših delovnih rezultatov, za katere je potrebno porabiti manj časa in denarja. V delavnici so udeleženci ugotavljali, kako bi testno aplikacijo dopolnili tako, da bi bila še koristnejša za različne namene in pristojnosti. Koristne predloge za optimizacijo aplikacije so imeli predstavniki Agencije za boj proti korupciji, Agencije za poslovne registre, Ministrstva za državno upravo in lokalno samoupravo – Direkcije za elektronsko upravo, Ministrstva za notranje zadeve, Državne revizorske institucije, Uprave za preprečevanja pranja denarja, Uprave za javne nabave, Zaštitnik građana in drugi.
Projekt v letu 2017 prehaja v tretjo fazo, ko se bo z razvojem aplikacije nadaljevalo: ob vključevanju vseh deležnikov javne uprave Republike Srbije bodo uporabljene ugotovitve testne delavnice, optimizirane bodo funkcije in vsebina aplikacije, dodajale se bodo baze podatkov in druge aktivnosti, potrebne za dokončno izdelavo aplikacije.
Projekt je del programskih aktivnosti, ki jih financira Ministrstvo za zunanje zadeve iz sredstev za mednarodno razvojno sodelovanje, izvaja pa se v sodelovanju z Upravo Republike Slovenije za javna plačila, slovenskim IT podjetjem ZZI, Ministrstvom za notranje zadeve in Policijo Republike Slovenije.
