University of Belgrade Faculty of Security Studies

The Faculty of Security Studies is an independent department of the University of Belgrade. The school’s programs cover philosophical, sociological, political, legal, economic, psychological, ethical, humanitarian, civilian-military, and other aspects of the security studies, human and social resources, defense, civil defense and environment protection. The school offers academic and undergraduate studies, Master degree studies, doctoral, and specialist undergraduate studies.

The Faculty of security Studies evolved from a department within the National Defense of the Natural Sciences and Mathematics Faculty. In 1978, this school grew into an independent university-level educational and scientific institution – the Faculty of People’s Defense, and in 1990 evolved into the Faculty of Civil Defense. Since 2006, the official name of the school is the Faculty of Security Studies.

The administrative body of the Faculty is the Faculty Council. Its members are founders, professors, associate professors, three non-faculty employees and four students. The Faculty is managed by the Dean and Vice Deans. The Faculty has four Vice Deans, three of which are professors and one is a student. The expert bodies of the Faculty are the Academic Council and the Electoral Council. The Faculty activities take place within organizational units.

1. The academic organizational units - departments:

2. The research organizational units:

3. The organizational units of the administrative, technical, and professional services:

Human Security Research Center is an organizational unit based at the Faculty of Security. This center examines human security as the increasingly non-military and multidimensional understanding of various threats to human society. Its goal is to turn theoretical insights into practical recommendations for policy-making and to develop means which will help decision-makers in local, national and multilateral government and non-government organizations and at all levels of governing structures of society and economy. Its directors are Dragana Dulić, Ph.D. and Ivica Lj. Djordjević, Ph.D.