Resilience and cohesion of Ukrainian society
This report was drafted by the team of the Ukrainian Independent Center for Political Research (UCIPR) as part of the activities of the National Platform for Resilience and Social Cohesion (National Platform). This civic initiative was launched in February 2018 (formerly known as the National Platform “Dialogue on Peace and Secure Reintegration”).
The National Platform’s activities are geared towards strengthening the national resilience of Ukraine. This could be done through establishing dialogue practices in society, providing the authorities with proposals for developing relevant policies, in particular, those on resilience and social cohesion, as well as ensuring public awareness of these processes. The initiative has been implemented with the financial support of the European Union as part of “Building Resilience in Conflict through Dialogue” project.
The report is based on data on events in 12 oblasts of Ukraine which are important for shaping a policy of national resilience. The project target oblasts were selected based on analysis of changes in cohesion of local populations due to the outbreak of military operations and include Donetsk, Luhansk, Kharkiv, Kherson, Zaporizhzhia, Mykolaiv, Odesa, Ternopil, IvanoFrankivsk, Chernivtsi, Lviv, and Zakarpattia oblasts. For data collection, we distinguish between the temporarily occupied areas, frontline and deoccupied areas, and rear areas.
UCIPR is grateful for the materials supplied by participants of the Regional Network of National Platform for Resilience and Social Cohesion, Dmytro Arabadzhyiev, Nadiia Babarykina, Dementii Bielyi, Anatolii Boiko, Ihor Dotsiak, Mykhailo Zolotukhin, Oksana Ivasiv, Olena Lytvyn, Natalia Nechaieva-Yuriychuk, Olena Nizhelska, Andrii Romanenko, Dmytro Tuzhanskyi, Nazar Khamuliak.
The report was drafted by Svitlana Gorobchyshyna (text), Olha Kovalenko (coordinator of the Regional Plat form of National Platform), Ivan Vartovnyk (coordinator of the project), Svitlana Kononchuk (editor).
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