Working sessions

The ninth DSC session took place on June 21-22, 2019. This session was divided into two parts: discussion of the topics urban development, journalistic ethics and innovative break-throughs in today…

A phrase from US politics in the 1980s – “all politics is local” – is perhaps even more relevant for Ukraine today than it was for America back then. How well a country’s cities function is increasingly understood as a prime determinant of progress and happiness, not only on the local, but also national level? Whether Ukraine’s decentralization, urbanization and democratization are successful or not is thus not only a political and administrative matter, but has larger economic, social and even cultural implications. Different cities can be very different things.

The eighth DSC session took place on May 4-5, 2019. This session themes were diverse: urban development, the Christian right, and Donbas. Three high-level experts came to the Centre to…

The combined sixth and seventh DSC session took place on April 6-7, 2019, i.e. between the first and second rounds of Ukraine’s presidential elections. Main themes of the session were Ukraine’s foreign relations, the role of women in Ukrainian politics, and the ongoing presidential elections in Ukraine. Several high-level experts came to the Centre to share their vision of Ukraine’s future and prospects for its development.

The fifth DSC session took place on February 23-24, 2019. This session main theme was the upcoming presidential elections in Ukraine. Many high-level experts came to the Centre to share…

The fourth DSC session took place on January 26-27, 2019. The main topic of this working session was effective communication. We had two intensive workshops: one on PR and Communication…

The combined second and third DSC sessions took place on November 30 – December 2, 2018. We had an intensive three-day-long, eight-hour-per-day session devoted to different topics related to the…

It is our pleasure to announce the start of a new academic year of the Democracy Study Centre (DSC). The second academic year (2018-2019) recruited 25 scholars from four countries…