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On January 25th and 26th, the Institute of World Policy is hosting the WOSCAP Methodology Workshop.The workshop is aimed at preparing the research team in Ukraine for the field research, based on the newly developed Theoretical Framework. The researchers will define actionable research plans to lead the case study fieldwork on the EU’s current and potential civilian capabilities in Ukraine.
The London School of Economics and Political Science and the University of Utrecht will conduct the workshop, and have designed the training materials and ethical guidelines.
The “Whole of Society Conflict Prevention and Peacebuilding” (WOSCAP) project is a part of framework of the European Union’s “Horizon 2020” program. This project is aimed at critical and constructive assessment of the capabilities of the EU for implementing conflict prevention and peacebuilding interventions through sustainable, comprehensive and innovative civilian means.
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This project is implemented under direction of the GPPAC (Global Partnership for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Hague) and in partnership with nine organizations, including the Institute of World Policy, London School of Economics, Utrecht University and others.

Duration of this project is 2.5 years, from mid-2015 until the end of 2017. Ukraine has joined the EU’s “Horizon 2020” program only in March 2015, when the IWP had already contributed to its realization.

The previous workshop has been held at the London School of Economics (the UK) in December.

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On January 20, the Institute of World Policy together with the Finnish Institute of International Affairs organized a public debate “The State of Reforms in Ukraine”.In 2014-15 international attention was mostly drawn to the conflict in Ukraine’s east. However, as hopes are growing for the stabilization of the situation – though not yet for conflict resolution – it is high time to return to the core questions posed by Ukraine’s Euromaidan, or “revolution of dignity”.

The participants of the event discussed what has changed and what has yet to change in the country to make it a functional economy and a mature democracy. Are the authorities still able and willing to carry out the reform agenda? Is Ukraine capable of fighting corruption and the power of oligarchs? Do the necessary transformations still enjoy the support of the people and what are the biggest risks?

Speakers:

Daria Kaleniuk, Executive Director, Anticorruption Action Centre, Kyiv

Iryna Bekeshkina, Director, Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Kyiv

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Chair & Comments: Arkady Moshes, Programme Director, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs
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Фото: Mattias Lehtinen

The event was held within the “The Ukrainian Think Tank Development Initiative” conducted by the International Renaissance Foundation (IRF) in association with the Think Tank Fund (TTF) with financial support of the Swedish embassy in Ukraine (SIDA).

IWP already held a similar debate in a number of capitals of EU member states, such as Rome, Berlin, Paris and Vienna. The IWP’s project “New European Policy: Filling the Awareness Gap” is carried out within the National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine.

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Institute of World Policy conducted a survey among more than 160 persons – officials, Ukrainian and foreign experts, diplomats, journalists and active citizens – on which issues should be covered in 2016.The mission of IWP is to develop analytical research and implement project activities in order to promote European standards and practices inside Ukraine, as well as to increase support of the foreign opinion leaders, EU and NATO officials for the European and Euro-Atlantic aspirations of Ukraine.
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The survey was conducted in order to determine the IWP’s agenda for 2016. Totally, 163 persons took part in the survey.
The previous survey, conducted in 2015, showed that the most popular among respondents were issues related to the security and defense, European integration, and advocacy campaigns on the EU integration issues in Ukraine. he Institute of World Policy fulfilled its agenda, which was formulated on the basis of the survey, for 90%.

Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy, has been included into Ukrainian delegation at the 25th summit of the Consultative Committee of the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland.The next meeting of the Consultative Committee of the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland (with new members) is scheduled for the first quarter of 2016, in Kyiv, which has been agreed during the official visit of the President of Poland Andrzej Duda to Ukraine on December 14-15, 2015.

The other members of Ukrainian delegation were Kostiantyn Yelisieiev, the Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration; Andrii Deshchytsia, the Ambassador of Ukraine to Poland; Olexandr Lytvynenko, the Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council; and Igor Zhovkva, the Head of the Department of Foreign Policy and European Integration of the Presidential Administration.

The Committee had been established in 1993, and has become an important advisory body for the Presidents of Ukraine and Poland and one of the key institutional mechanisms of Ukrainian-Polish cooperation in recent years. The CCP’s activities contribute significantly to active dialogue between the two Presidents, as well as to search for ways to address the urgent issues of the bilateral agenda, introduce and implement new initiatives and projects.

For the time being, 24 CCP summits have been held. The last one has been organized on December 3, 2014, in Warsaw.

The Institute of World Policy held “Euro-Atlantic Partnership Day: NATO-Ukraine Partnership v2.0” Forum in Kyiv on December 15th, 2015.The event was supported by the NATO Center for Information and Documentation in Ukraine.

Representatives of the MFA of Ukraine, Ministry of Defense, Ukrainian and foreign diplomats, NATO Headquarters officials, local and foreign experts, journalist and civil activists took part in the Forum. The event brought together more than 100 participants, interested in the Ukraine-NATO relations.

Participants discussed a wide range of issues related to the Ukraine-NATO cooperation and changing security environment; in particular, reform of the Armed Forces, hybrid warfare, place of Ukraine in transatlantic relations, the Russian factor, and how to strengthen cooperation between Ukraine and Alliance.
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Natalia Nemyliwska, Director of the NATO Information and Documentation Centre in Ukraine, Sergiy Shutenko? Head of the Department of International Security of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, and Viktor Shlinchak, Head of the Board of the Institute of World Policy
“Ukraine and NATO have never been so close and far at the same time than today. The recent poll conducted by the Razumkov Center and Democratic Initiatives Foundation shows that 46% of the people believes that Ukraine’s accession to NATO is the best way to ensure its national security. Moreover, in a hypothetical referendum on NATO membership almost 65% of its participants are ready to support Ukraine’s accession to NATO. We have quite a positive trend, as the number is 11% higher than it was in summer 2014. Of course, this number is a reaction to the Russian aggression. On the other hand, with the occupation of its territories Ukraine moves away from the NATO membership. The question is how we can describe current NATO-Ukraine relations? Whether it may be some informal plan for membership in NATO (which we could get almost 10 years ago)? Does the Ukrainian army fits to NATO standards? Is there currently a lack of trust in relations between Ukraine and NATO? “, – said Viktor Shlinchak, Head of the Board of the Institute of World Policy, opening the Forum.
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Dominik Jankowski, Chief Specialist of Security Policy Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy, David Kramer, Senior Director for Human Rights and Democracy at the McCain Institute, and Simon James Thomas, Associate of the Oxford Institute for Statecraft.
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IWP turned the event into an interactive experience by letting everybody post messages and photos to the Twitter wall, installed in the hall.
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Petr Lunak, Deputy Head of the Engagement Section, Public Diplomacy Division at the NATO HQ, Ihor Kabanenko, Deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine (2014), Serhiy Sydorenko, Editor-in-Chief of “European Truth”, and Ihor Kosyak, Colonel, Head of the Territorial Defense of the Main Operations Directorate at the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine
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Alvydas Medalinskas, Political Analyst at the Mykolas Romeris University; Former Chairman of Foreign Affairs in the Lithuania parliament
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During the Forum IWP presented a memo “What can NATO offer to Ukraine?” . The paper was prepared by IWP analyst Ivan Medynskiy.

On the 10th of December in Paris the Institute of World Policy in the partnership with the Institute for International and Strategic Affairs (IRIS, France) organized a public debate entitled “Reforms in Ukraine in the Context of Political and Security Challenges.”During the event the leading Ukrainian experts presented their assessments of the current political and security situation in Ukraine, progress in implementation of reforms, and the current status of the Minsk II agreement . The Ukrainian delegation consisted of Alyona Getmanchuk, director of the Institute of World Policy, prof. Oleksiy Haran, National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and scientific director at the Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Volodymyr Fesenko, director of the Centre for Political Studies “Penta”, and Leonid Litra, associate research fellow at the IWP and at the Institute for Development and Social Initiatives “Viitorul” (Moldova).

The French perspective was brought by Laure Delcour, research director at the IRIS and researcher at the Foundation House of Human Sciences, Raphael Martin de Lagarde, deputy director of Eastern Europe Department at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development.

The event was attended by over 100 participants that proved a high interest of the French expert community in the Ukrainian issue.

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The public event was organized within the IWP’s project “New European Policy: Filling the Awareness Gap”. This project is carried out within the National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms (UNITER) project, supported by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine.

The previous public debates on Ukraine’s reforms progress took place in Rome, Berlin, and Vienna.

Leonid Litra, Senior Research Fellow, took part in the conference “Role of Think Tanks in Ukraine Key Reforms” on December 7th, 2015.The participants of the conference discussed the role of think tanks in the reform process in Ukraine and share actual success stories. Panel discussions were held to talk over the role of think tank community in promoting relevant policy studies abroad; new opportunities and challenges for think tanks in the discovery of large data amounts.

Leonid Litra told about IWP’s experience in international promotion of policy researches at the respective panel.

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At the final panel discussion of the conference the speakers focused on the role of regional think tanks in making decisions at the local government level.

The Role of Think Tanks in Ukraine Key Reforms Conference was held within the framework of the Think Tank Support Initiative in Ukraine implemented by the International Renaissance Foundation in partnership with the Think Tank Fund (TTF) under the financial support of the Swedish International Development Agency (SIDA).

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