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Strategic Discussion Club in Kherson

Institute of World Policy held a meeting of Strategic Discussion Club in Kherson on April 16. The topic of the meeting: “The EU, NATO…What will Ensure Ukraine’s Security?”The event was organized within the project “Strategic Discussion Club in the Regions”, supported by the Government of the Kingdom of Norway.

Being aware of the challenges facing Ukraine today, IWP have decided to hold regular public discussions on the strategic vision of Ukraine’s national security policy in eastern and southern regions of the country. The key objective of the project is to involve regional elites who for a long time have been in intellectual isolation to participate in the debate on strategic development of country.

On April 16, IWP invited European diplomats and leading Ukrainian experts to Kherson to discuss security issues with regional experts, civil activists, representatives of local authorities, and journalists. The Strategic Discussion Club in Kherson was attended by Marius Yanukonis, Ambassador of Lithuania to Ukraine, Pavel Buchek, Deputy Ambassador of the Czech Republic to Ukraine, Richard Scarborough, Counsellor at the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Ukraine, Oleksiy Haran, Scientific Director of the School of Political Analysis at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, and Sergiy Solodkyy, Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy.

Video of the event is available here.
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Deputy mayor of Kherson Ihor Pastukh, Deputy Ambassador of the Czech Republic Pavel Buchek, Counsellor at the Norwegian Embassy Richard Scarborough, Ambassador of Lithuanian Marius Yanukonis, and professor Oleksiy Haran (NaUKMA)
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In the last 10 months IWP has organized six regional public discussions on security issues in Mykolaiv, Kharkov, Zaporizhzhya, Odessa, Dnipropetrovsk, and Kherson. More information on IWP’s project “Strategic Discussion Club in Ukrainian regions”, supported by the Norwegian Government, you could find here.

Public Debates «Georgian Experience for Ukraine»

Institute of World Policy together with Caucasian House held public debates within the initiative «Georgian Experience for Ukraine» on April 15th.The first panel «Strategies on Occupied Territories: Isolation or Engagement?»

Participants discussed Ukraine’s policy towards occupied territories in the context of Georgian experience; in particularly, they defined the main challenges and problems in engagement with people of Donbass and Crimea and formulated recommendations to the government on how to overcome them. During the debates the policy brief «Strategies of Ukraine for Building Relations with Population of Occupied Territories and Georgian Experience» has been presented.

Speakers: Giorgi Kanashvili, Executive Director of the Caucasian House, Marina Vorotnyuk, Senior Research Fellow at the National Institute for Strategic Studies (Odessa branch), and Maria Zolkina, analyst at the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation.
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Viktor Shlinchak, Head of the Board of the Institute of World Policy, and Giorgi Kanashvili, Executive Director of the Caucasian House
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Maria Zolkina, political analyst at the Ilko Kucheriv Democratic Initiatives Foundation, and Francesca Stidston, DFID Representative (Great Britain)
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The second panel “Reforms in Ukraine: How to Avoid Georgian Mistakes”
The panel was focused on the first results of reforms in Ukraine and lessons learnt from Georgian experience. The participants presented the policy brief «Economic Reforms: Market Liberalization vs Social Responsibility (Georgian Experience)».
Speakers: Eric Livny, Head of the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University, Oksana Kuziakiv, Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, Maka Chitanava, analyst at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University (to download her presentation click here).
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Maka Chitanava, analyst at the International School of Economics at Tbilisi State University, and Sergiy Solodkyy, First Deputy Director of the Institute of World Policy .
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Oksana Kuziakiv, Executive Director of the Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting
The public debates was organized within the framework of the project “Ukraine: out of Crisis through Dialogue”, implemented by the Institute of World Policy (Kyiv) and Caucasian House (Tbilisi) with the support of the British Embassy in Kyiv.
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Oleksiy Semeniy, Director of the Institute for Global Transformations
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