Garčević Participates in Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forced Displacement
On July 27, 2023, Ambassador Vesko Garčević, Professor of the Practice of International Relations, participated in the Interdisciplinary Summer School on Forced Displacement held in Belgrade, Serbia. The school was organized by the BU Center on Forced Displacement and hosted by the faculty of Political Science at the University of Belgrade.
Long before migration increased substantially in 2015, the US and the European Union began working on establishing strict border regimes that limit the access to their territories and asylum processing systems for people on the move. Across Europe, asylum seekers and migrants arriving to European land and shores are being “pushed-back” to Western Balkan states, abandoned or pushed back at sea, or held in legal limbo in EU states such as Greece as they await almost certain deportation. The school seeks to address these policies with the school’s participants through weekly journals, lectures and seminars run by researchers and scholars.
Ambassador Vesko Garčević dealt with issues pertinent to European security and NATO for almost 14 years during his diplomatic career. In 2004, he was posted in Vienna to serve as Ambassador to Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He was Montenegro’s Ambassador to NATO from 2010 until 2014 and served as Montenegro’s National Coordinator for NATO from 2015 until he joined the faculty at the Pardee School. Learn more about Ambassador Garčević on his faculty profile.