Course
“Civil society in resolving modern conflicts”
Academic year 2024-2025
Jean Monnet Module Erasmus+
“Civil society in conflict resolution process:
the EU experience for Ukraine”
101084973 — EURoCoRP — ERASMUS-JMO-2022-HEI-TCH-RSCH
CIVIL SOCIETY IN RESOLVING MODERN CONFLICTS
Course Content (1)
Topic: 1: Theoretical foundations of civil society.
Topic 2: Civil society as an integral attribute of modern democracy.
Topic 3: Collective and individual participation in the partnership model of interaction between civil society and state institutions.
Topic 4: Legislative principles for ensuring the functioning and development of civil society.
Topic 5: Political parties as an instrument of civil society participation in government.
Topic 6: Public sentiment, government and civil society.
Topic 7: Modern practices of public activity and self-organization.
Topic 8: Public associations are the basic institution of civil society functioning.
Topic 9: Anti-corruption activities of civil society organizations.
Topic 10: Features of the functioning of civil society in the economic sphere.
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Topic 11: Mass media as a control and information resource of civil society.
Topic 12: Volunteer movement in Ukraine.
Topic 13: The main trends of youth activity and self-organization.
Topic 14: Effective responses to threats to national security: opportunities for civil society.
Topic 15: The Orange Revolution and the Revolution of Dignity as manifestations of the maturity of civil society in Ukraine.
Topic 16: Exercise of the right to civil protest and peaceful assembly.
Topic 17: Identity: the cause or precondition of conflict.
Topic 18: International standards for implementing the right to peaceful assembly and the problems of their provision in Ukraine.
Topic 19: EU engagement with civil society.
Topic 20: Civil society in the Eastern Partnership countries.
CIVIL SOCIETY IN RESOLVING MODERN CONFLICTS
Course Content (2)
Topic 20: Civil society in the Eastern Partnership countries.
Forum of civil society
The Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum (EaP CSF) is a unique multi-layered regional civil society platform aimed at promoting European integration, facilitating reforms and democratic transformations in the six Eastern Partnership countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
�Thematic priorities of activity�
Democracy and Good Governance;
Policy Convergence with the European Union;
Sustainable Development.
Ukrainian national platform
WG 1. Democracy, human rights, good governance, and stability
WG 2. Economic integration and coherence with EU policy
WG 3. Environment, climate change, and energy security
WG 4. Contacts between people
WG 5. Social and labor policy and social dialogue
The Ukrainian National Platform, like the Civil Society Forum, operates within five working thematic platforms, called working groups (WGs):
Ukrainian national platform
supporting the European integration of Ukraine as a candidate for joining the EU;
responding to the challenges of the war and strengthening the participation of civil society in the reconstruction and restoration of Ukraine;
unification of civil society around the defense of European values and living standards;
supporting the sustainability and capacity of civil society;�strengthening international solidarity with Ukraine.
The thematic priorities of the activities of the Ukrainian National Platform Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum for 2023:
Initiatives
Human Rights and Freedoms
#10yearstogether
CivilSocietySays
PrepareEaP4Health
EaP CSF effectively communicate the civil society positions on democratic reforms and the EaP implementation, and ensure a regular flow of information on civil society expertise to the decision-makers on the EU and EaP national levels.
Initiatives
PrepareEaP4Health
to raise awareness of the EU stakeholders to the needs of six EaP countries and their civil societies in order to fight the outbreak of COVID-19.
CivilSocietySays
On March 18, 2020 European Commission released their proposal for the new policy objectives for EaP beyond 2020. The EaP Civil Society Forum will continue to be a key partner in advancing the role of civil society in policy dialogue.
Initiatives
#10yearstogether
to deepen and strengthen relations between the European Union, its member states and its six Eastern neighbours: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine.
Human Rights and Freedoms
EaP CSF fills an important niche as a “watchdog” of democratic transformation in the EaP countries.
�Statements of the forum on conflict situations in the countries of the Eastern Partnership�
EaP CSF Armenian National Platform statement on the war of Russia against Ukraine
EaP CSF Azerbaijan National Platform statement on Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine
The Armenian National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum condemns the unleashing of the war of Russia against Ukraine.
In their statement, the Azerbaijan National Platform of the Eastern Partnership Civil Society Forum strongly condems Russia’s military aggression against Ukraine and demand that the Russian government immediately stops this occupation and respects the sovereign rights of the countries.
Sources
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Jean Monnet Actions
Useful links
EURoCoRP
Ostroh Academy, NU
European Commission
�Thank you for attention!
Prof. in charge – Sergii Ishchuk, Doc. Sci.
Co-Lecturer - Dmytro Shevchuk, Doc. Sci.
Co-Lecturer - Tetiana Sydoruk, Doc. Sci.
Co-Lecturer - Kateryna Yakunina, PhD
Co-Lecturer - Olena Shershnova, PhD
The National University of Ostroh Academy