Firearms Possession and Human (In)Security: Impact on youth and gender based violence
01Jun2016

Since June 20, the Public Policy Centre has been conducting a project concerning perceptions of firearms possession, especially among youth and women. The aim is to contribute to reduction of human insecurity in Serbia for these vulnerable groups. Qualitative data will be collected through interviews and focus gropus organized at three locations. Furthermore, based on the fieldwork findings and desktop research a policy brief will be produced and will be used in order to raise awarness about links between firearms possession and violence against youth and women. 

The project lasts until October 2016 and it is supported by the CLAIM! Citizen's Network for Peace, Reconcilliation and Human Security for the Western Balkans and Turkey within the grant which EU awarded this Network in 2012.

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Documents

Firearms Possession and Human Security: Do we see firearms as a provider of personal security or a security risk? Arms possession and human security: Does weapons protect us or scare us? (srb only)

Svetlana Đurđević Lukić Fund: HUMAN SECURITY FOR THE NEW CENTURY

Uncertainty and vulnerability of the individual in the 21st century is the focus of CENTAR’s Human Security Programme. Building on foundations set by the recently departed co-founder and longtime director of CENTAR, Svetlana Đurđević Lukić, CENTAR regards security as a human right and advocates for construing a society in which every individual will have opportunities to reach their potential. Svetlana had a talent of pioneering the introduction of many topics – primarily concerned with the security of vulnerable groups – into security discourse within Serbia. Fostering this approach, starting from 2016, CENTAR, as part of its foundation named after the late Svetlana, holds a competition with the goal of inspiring young researchers to examine modern day threats.