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    Civil Society and Sense of Community in Ukraine: From Dormancy to Action
    (2024) Martin, Eric; Zarembo, Kateryna
    The academic literature offers different views on the strength of Ukraine’s civil society, but Ukraine’s massive civic engagement and collective action, most recently in defense against Russian aggression, offers a startling picture of grass-root activism. Based on interviews, surveys and archival research, we highlight changes and nuances to Ukrainian civil society, civic engagement and motivations over time, from Euromaidan, through the hybrid Russian aggression in the East, to the recent full-scale Russian invasion. In doing so, we explore a more inclusive understanding of civil society complemented by sense of community and community responsibility.
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    Conflict Resolution Within European Union: Experience of Spain
    (2020) Taranenko, Hanna
    The article is dedicated to the experience of Spain within conflict resolution framework in the European Union. The goal of this article is to analyze in depth the Catalan case in order to identify the important lessons learned of the conflict resolution and search for viable options of the confrontation mitigation. The objectives of the article are as follows: to analyze the background of the Catalan conflict, to study the current status of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia, to identify vital lessons learned from the peace process and make projections for further conflict settlement.
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    Democracy development in post-socialist countries
    (Perfect Publishing, 2022) Taranenko, Anna
    Democracy development is moving on gradually in post-socialist countries. One of the former soviet republics that demonstrates a shift toward democracy is Georgia. One of the serious challenges of transition to democracy is the clan factor, which is also characteristic of the post-soviet and "post-socialist camp" space. Democracy development can be a challenging process, requiring a lot of careful planning, negotiations and change management approaches. Nonetheless, democratization process is moving on, with moderate progress, in post-socialist states of Eastern and Southern Europe.
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    European Neighborhood Policy as Conflict Prevention Instrument
    (2020) Taranenko, Hanna
    The article is dedicated to analyzing the European Neighborhood Policy as conflict prevention instrument. As a conclusion one can note that one of the important vectors of European Neighborhood Policy is building mutually beneficial relationships among participating countries and conflict prevention. ENP as a political instrument and conflict prevention tool is characterized by downturn at the time being. Yet it remains an important channel of communication and ideas exchange between the involved parties and therefore presents potential for further development and security enhancement in the region.
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    Germany case for Russia-Ukraine conflict resolution
    (BoScience Publisher, 2022) Taranenko, Anna
    Following steps can be recommended for the conflict resolution: regular negotiations, paying attention to public opinion, especially of the communities involved, employment of peacebuilding mechanisms among different society groups, in line with democratic principles. The efforts need to be complemented by countering propaganda and disinformation campaigns. Besides, one needs to pay attention to involvement of a wide range of stakeholders, active search for a "win-win" situation and thorough communication planning.
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    Introduction to the Special Issue: Civil Society in Ukraine: Building on Euromaidan Legacy
    (2017) Burlyuk, Olga; Shapovalova, Natalia; Zarembo, Kateryna
    Introduction article to the Special Issue of the Kyiv-Mohyla Law and Politics Journal.
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    Substituting for the State: The Role of Volunteers in Defense Reform in Post-Euromaidan Ukraine
    (2017) Zarembo, Kateryna
    While the role of volunteers in sustaining the Ukrainian armed forces against the backdrop of Russian aggression since 2014 has been widely acknowledged in literature, the effect of volunteer initiatives on the state defense capacity in longer term has not been studied thus far. This article aims to address this gap and explore whether volunteer participation led to institutional strengthening of the Ukrainian defense state capacity or to its weakening. The analysis will conclude that the volunteers in fact contributed to both - strengthening the state and weakening it at the same time; the outcome dependent on the context in which the volunteers took action at different times. While volunteer participation failed to bring about systemic reform, it did provide powerful democratic oversight over the state’s key defense institution.