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Ukraine Conference

This year’s presi­dential elections marked a signif­icant change in Ukrainian politics with political newcomer Volodymyr Zelenskiy winning 73% of the votes and becoming the sixth president of Ukraine. Since Monday, May 20, 2019 Zelenskiy is now officially holding his office and within the first week of his tenure, he initiated and triggered major changes within the Ukrainian political landscape. Instead of the scheduled parlia­mentary election in late October, Ukrainians will already cast their vote on July 21, 2019. Several new parties will have the chance to move into the Verkhovna Rada and to disrupt the current political power constel­la­tions. Ukraine’s civil society is thereby also standing in front of new devel­op­ments and challenges.

Thank you for attending our inter­na­tional conference: “Ukraine in the Election Year 2019: New Tendencies and Devel­op­ments in Politics and Civil Society” which took place on 12 June 2019 from 9.00 am to 5.00 pm at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum (DAZ) in Berlin. The conference addressed the following questions among three infor­mative panels: How could Ukraine’s foreign political strategy as well as its security strategy change under its new presi­dency? Which domestic reforms will be maintained and which areas are likely to show further progress? Another Focus was set on new tendencies in political commu­ni­cation strategies during the presi­dential election campaign and how reforms can be commu­ni­cated to the population.

Moreover, we were happy to present the first results of our quali­tative study on German and Ukrainian think tanks and to discuss the question on how the support of Ukrainian civil society could be made more sustainable.

Download the detailed Programme here.

The conference took place within the framework of the project Platform for Analytics and Inter­cul­tural Commu­ni­cation (PAIC) which is conducted in close cooper­ation with the Ilko Kucheriv Democ­ratic Initia­tives Foundation (DIF, Kyiv) and the think tanks devel­opment and research initiative think twice UA (Kyiv) and the kind support of the Federal Foreign Office.