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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the Institute of World Policy, and Leonid Litra, Senior Research Fellow, took part in the 2015 PASOS General Assembly in Tirana, Albania.PASOS supports the development and strengthens the outreach and impact of its 56 members. The Institute of World Policy has joined PASOS in 2011.
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The PASOS mission is to promote and protect democracy, human rights and open society values is reaffirmed.
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The Institute of World Policy organized the training on methodology of analytical research for the experts of the prominent Ukrainian think tanks on September 4, 2015 at the International Renaissance Foundation.Trainer: Dr. Martin Brusis, Managing Director of the project network „Institutions and Institutional Change in Postsocialism“ ( Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München).

The participants discussed such important elements of every research as building theories, hypotheses, causality and causal explanations, explanatory and response variables. Dr. Martin Brusis explained how to use the qualitative and quantitative tools for descriptive and causal inference (causal process vs. data set observations, comparative case studies, regression analysis).

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To watch videos from the training follow the links:

Notions of causality
Conceptualization and measurement
Classical and radial concepts
Measurement

The event was held within the “Initiative for Development of Ukrainian Think Tanks” 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).

Institute of World Policy in cooperation with the Slovak NGO «Euforion» has opened the International Exhibition of Political Cartoons in Vinnytsia on September 7, 2015.The main idea of the project is to present the political cartoon as a critical and independent genre by showing the works of premier European cartoonists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, and the USA.
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The project is conducted with the support of the International Visegrad Fund.
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Early, the exhibition also took place in Kyiv, Dnipropetrovsk, and Odesa.

The Institute of World Policy held its first staff retreat near Kyiv. The members of the IWP team discussed a wide range of issues connected with the strategic development of the think tank, particularly the ways to strengthen its policy impact and communicative effectiveness.{1}
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Viktor Shlinchak, the Chairman of the Institute of World Policy, has been elected as a civil society representative to the tender committee for the selection of candidates for the National Anti-Corruption Agency.Overall, four representatives of civil society have been elected to the committee. The other committee members are Andrii Marusov of Transparency International Ukraine, Viktor Taran of the Center for Political Studies and Analytics and Lesia Shevchenko of the Open Society Foundation. They have been voted for by 23 of 24 admitted NGOs.

“We have witnessed the well-organized elections, compliant with procedures and process logic: with online broadcast, candidates’ biographies available to the public, the candidates’ physical presentation, Q&A session, voting and live results counting,” commented Oleksiy Khmara, the Chairman of Transparency International Ukraine, on his social network page about the voting.

In order to launch the Commission’s activities, the President of Ukraine, the Cabinet of Ministers, the Parliament and the National Agency for Civil Service should also delegate their representatives.

“On August 31, a monitoring group of the EU experts arrives to Ukraine to verify implementation of the anti-corruption legislation. By that time, the commission roster will be approved” – said Pavlo Petrenko, the Justice Minister of Ukraine.

It should be reminded, that according to the “On Prevention of Corruption” law of October 14, 2014, the National Agency is the central executive body with special status that forms and implements the national anti-corruption policy.

The Agency comprises five members appointed by the Cabinet of Ministers for 4 years through competitive selection. The Chairman of the National Agency is elected from those members.

The duties of the National Agency for Prevention of Corruption include development of the Anti-Corruption Strategy and the state program of the latter’s implementation, as well as maintenance of the unified state register of tax declarations of Ukrainian officials and the unified state register of the persons accused of corruption legislation violations.

Institute of World Policy in partnership with Institute for European Policies and Reforms (Chisinau) organized a round table “Minorities and the Construction of Inclusive Society
in Ukraine and Moldova” on August 26-27.Over two days the prominent Ukrainian and Moldovan experts had been discussing a wide range of issues connected to minority protection and creation of truly inclusive societies in Moldova and Ukraine. In particular, they focused on such issues as EU framework for protection and inclusion of minorities, successes and failures of minorities integration, challenges and issues that should be at the foundation of the national strategy for minorities’ integration, political representation and political participation of minorities.
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Participants: prof. Stefan Wolff (University of Birmingham), Martin Sieg (Institute for European Policies and Reforms), Natalia Belitser (the Pylyp Orlyk Institute for Democracy), Tatiana Costev ( (Minority Empowerment Project in Moldova), Ruslan Stanga (former Advisor on Minorities to the Prime Minister of Moldova), Vlad Kulminski (former Political Adviser to the Prime Minister of Moldova), Valeriu Chiveri (Institute for European Policies and Reforms), Alyona Getmanchuk (Institute of World Policy), Leonid Litra (Institute of World Policy), Volodymyr Kulyk ( I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine), prof. Oleh Kalakura( I.F. Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies), Olena Zakharova (International Centre for Policy Studies), and others.

In addition, the experts from Kharkiv, Odesa, Chernivtsi and Kherson revealed the regional dimensions of the problem.
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Institute of World Policy has presented the results of the opinion poll “What Ukrainians think about Ukraine?” on August 20.{1}
In June 2015, the Institute of World Policy had presented the results of the survey on perception of Ukraine by citizens of six most populated countries of the EU. The main findings of the survey were as follows: Ukraine is primarily associated with war, Russia, and poverty; the main obstacles to Ukraine’s accession to the European Union are corruption and oligarchy. However, one third of the citizens of the aforesaid countries believe that protecting Ukraine from Russia’s aggression is a valid reason to provide Ukraine with membership in the EU in the future.

The IWP decided to find out whether the perception of Ukraine by its own citizens is different from perception of the EU residents as well as to understand whether we perceive the requirements for opening the door to the European Union before Ukraine in the same way. The results of these two “mirroring” surveys could allow us to identify the differences in understanding of European integration processes by Ukrainians and the EU citizens and thus to formulate a more realistic European agenda for Ukraine.
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Alyona Getmanchuk, Director, Institute of World Policy, and Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director, Institute of World Policy

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Mykola Riabchuk, journalist, essayist, novelist
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Oleh Rybachuk, Former Deputy Prime Minister of Ukraine on European Integration, Director of “Centre UA”
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To download the publication “What do Ukrainians Think about Ukraine?” please click here.

The opinion poll was conducted by the TNS company on request of the Institute of World Policy within “New European Policy: Filling the Awareness Gap” project supported by “Ukraine National Initiatives to Enhance Reforms” (UNITER) project, funded by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and implemented by the Pact in Ukraine.

Alyona Getmanchuk, Director of the IWP, and Leniod Litra, Senior Research Fellow, attended 8th Ministerial Conference of the Community of Democracies, held on July 22-24 in San Salvador.The Ministerial Conference gathered 800 participants from over 80 countries, including government representatives, representatives of civil society, parliaments, the private sector, and youth for designated forums.
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Ukraine awas represented by the Ambassador of Ukraine in Mexico Ruslan Spirin.
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The leading theme for El Salvador’s Presidency is “Democracy and Development.” The program declaration of the Salvadoran Presidency, presented in 2013, states that “Democracy and social development complement each other – democracy cannot be established without economic and social development, and no economic strategy can prosper without democratic legitimacy.”

Thus, the Ministerial Conference in San Salvador addressed issues in accordance with this topic, and use the topic of development as a main reference point for discussion. Participants examined a variety of relevant questions, including inclusion and social development, youth and citizenship, participatory democracy, sustainable development, and the struggle against poverty.

A second central theme for the conference was the connection between democracy and the culture of peace. Drawing from El Salvador’s experience as a country that rose from a bloody civil war to a regional model of democracy, participants discussed ways in which democracy and peace correlate and strengthen each other.

Institute of World Policy in cooperation with the Slovak NGO «Euforion» has opened the International Exhibition of Political Cartoons in Odesa on July 22, 2015.The main idea of the project is to present the political cartoon as a critical and independent genre by showing the works of premier European cartoonists from the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Ukraine, Georgia, and the USA.
{1}Representing Czech Republic is Pavel Reisenauer, from Georgia Georgi Gamezadarshvili. from Poland Andrzej Mleczko, from Slovakia Martin “Shooty” Šútovec, from Hungary Csaba Varga, from Ukraine Oleg Smal and from the U.S. Daryl Cagle.
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The project is conducted with the support of the International Visegrad Fund.

Early, the exhibition also took place in Kyiv and Dnipropetrovsk.

On July 6-8, the experts of the Institute of World Policy paid a working visit to Prague, the capital of the Czech RepublicDuring the visit IWP’s Director Alyona Getmanchuk, First Deputy Director Sergiy Solodkyy, and Senior Research Fellow Leonid Litra took part in public debates on the situation in Ukraine, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic. The debates were attended by the representatives of the Czech government and experts from the leading think tanks.
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On July 7, the experts of the Institute of World Policy opened an exhibition of political cartoons devoted to the European integration of Ukraine at the Czech Center Prague.

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Photos: Anna Pleslová
Twenty pictures developed in 2013 by the famous Ukrainian cartoonists under IWP request are depicting crucial spheres which should be reformed. Each cartoon consists of two segments. The first one is about state of affairs in different fields as it was in 2013. The second one is about what Ukraine would like to achieve as a result of the European integration.

‘We are glad to acknowledge that in a year after the Revolution of Dignity some of the pictures appeared to be irrelevant. For example, Ukrainians are proud today by its new police which has been introduced recently’, said Alyona Getmanchuk, IWP Director during the opening of the exhibition in Prague.
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This is a part of a larger set of cartoons (total amount is more than 50 pictures) exhibited outside Ukraine for the first time. Two years ago, the exhibition directed purely at Ukrainian public was displayed at more than 20 cities of Ukraine. During six months, IWP team drove more than 9000 kilometers, visiting thirteen regions of the country.
The initial goal of the project was to remind Ukrainian politicians what state they were promised to build and to remind Ukrainian citizens what country they should demand from the authorities. IWP does not idealize the European Union realizing all the shortcomings and challenges of the European project but there are also lots of positive examples in the EU which could be used by Ukrainians.

The working visit was organized under invitation of Petr Drulák, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and supported by the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Ukraine.