Security Foresights

Enhancing Ukraine's Foresight Capacity

About the project

The project of the Institute of World Policy and The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS, Netherlands), supported by the International Renaissance Foundation, set a goal to solve four major problems faced by think tanks in Ukraine.

1. Ukrainian think tanks have very limited access to Western expert networks which deal with social and strategic studies and use modern methodology of analysis. IWP is cooperating with HCSS to prepare analytical materials based on new methods of collecting and processing information.

2. One of the most important social functions of think tanks is the best possible preparation of the country for the future. Currently Ukrainian political debates are focused on the reality, on the present. That is why there is a lack of objective foresight studies using evidence-based methodology. The project of IWP and HCSS aimed at filling this gap.

3. It is a common practice in Ukraine to analyze the relevant policy issues in an emotional and biased way. This project allows applying evidence -based, unbiased approach.

4. Ukrainian think tanks lack the latest methodological tools employed by their Western counterparts. This project allowed the Ukrainian researchers learn from the Dutch partners.

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