Kosovar Centre for Security Studies

KCSS is a non-governmental and non-profit organization established on 17 April 2008.

KCSS is established with the main aim to develop research studies in the security sector. Also, KCSS through its activities aims to organize professional conferences and seminars in the field of security policy, rule of law, justice, and provides training for certain groups in monitoring the security sector and justice. Given the lack of specialized institutes dealing with the field of security studies in our country, KCSS serves as an alternative option in relation to public policy in this area. The main activities KCSS conducted until now have strengthened the principles of democratic oversight of security institutions in the Republic of Kosovo.

In the context of regional and international cooperation, since November 2011, KCSS became a member with full rights in the European Peacebuilding Liaison Office (EPLO) in Brussels, being the only local think tank representing Kosovo in this platform of European NGOs, NGO networks and think tanks active in the field of peacebuilding which share an interest in promoting sustainable peacebuilding policies among decision-makers in the European Union. KCSS is part of a regional consortium of Institutes entitled "Evaluation and monitoring of the security sector in Western Balkans" where KCSS covers Kosovo and contribute actively to the development of methodology. It is also part of a regional consortium of Norwegian Research Council entitled "From Conflict Zones to Security Communities".