In her closing note, Ms Sonja Licht said that the first Belgrade Security Forum “has taken place under a very serious shadow”, but that it also sent important messages to inspire the resolution of the actual problems in a peaceful way. Ms Licht called two young scholars to give a final evaluation of this conference by answering the two fundamental questions of the conference: “Balkan and Global Security – what do we have in common, what sets us apart?”.

From the perspective of the things that “we have in common”, Mr Sigurd Neubauer, foreign affairs specialist of the SOS International in USA, said that during the Belgrade Security Forum “we all learned a lesson about the great amount of solidarity necessary to finding peaceful resolutions in order to overcome conflicts”.

On the other side, Ms Jana Bacevic stated that it is insecurity that was omnipresent during the talks within Belgrade Security Forum. “Insecurity not as a threat, but as the lack of clarity encountered in defining future steps and impressions about what the scenario in the field of security would be like”, Ms Bacevic said. She concluded that this event was a place to discuss different issues and to try not only to find answers, but also to include them on the security agenda.