As part of the “Youth for the Future of Ukraine” project, the “DIALOGUES” initiative continues to bring people together through meetings organized and moderated by the project’s young participants themselves.
Ukrainians have repeatedly gathered on the Maidans to defend their right to determine their country’s future. Behind this right has always been something greater than the opportunity to vote for a particular candidate or political party.
On October 10–12, the second part of the advanced module of the “Dialogues in Religious Communities” school took place in the Kyiv region. The school
We are accustomed to seeing critical thinking as one of our strengths. We verify information, analyze arguments, recognize manipulation, and distrust sweeping claims. We believe that our ability to question what others say protects us from making mistakes.
For Nazarii Ivakhiv, a student at the National University of Ostroh Academy, Ukraine’s future does not begin with abstract declarations.
“I want to live in a Ukraine where there is justice, where people believe in the future, where there is loyalty, love, and trust between people,” says Anna Ryshykovets from Varash.
“I want to live in a Ukraine where justice and trust are not just beautiful words, but principles by which people and the state live every day,” says Marharyta Dats, a student at V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, an activist and volunteer.
The project “Youth for the Future of Ukraine: Dialogue, Research and Creative Media Work for the Consolidation of Ukrainian Society and Orthodoxy” has now been running for five months.
Can a media product that has received a million views but changed nothing for its audience really be called successful? This was the question with which journalist **Ilona Sokolovska** opened the discussion.
On 28–29 September, Lutsk hosted the first part of the Week of Religious Dialogues with Youth as part of the “Youth for the Future of Ukraine” project. And this was one of those occasions when the word “dialogue” was not simply an attractive title for an event, but quite literally a way of working.
If a few decades ago it was enough for the Church to have its own newspaper, website, or communications department, today this is clearly no longer sufficient. The Church exists within the same information space as politics, business, culture, civil society, and the everyday lives of millions of people.
What do young people want from Ukraine after the war – and what are they ready to do to make it happen now? Participants of the Second Youth Forum “The Future of Ukraine We Want to Build,” held on 18–20 September in the Kyiv region, spent three days discussing these questions.
We continue our series of stories about young participants in the “Youth for the Future of Ukraine” project who, after completing training at the Summer School of Journalism and Media Work, joined the production of the video series “Ukraine’s Recovery: Directions, Priorities, Challenges.”
We continue our series of materials about the young participants of the “Youth for the Future of Ukraine” project who, after completing training at the
Graduates of the Summer School of Journalism and Media Work, held in August as part of the “Youth for the Future of Ukraine” project, have joined the creation of a new video series, “Ukraine’s Recovery: Directions, Priorities, Challenges.”
Can a state protect itself without restricting freedom of conscience? And can the state remain neutral if the religious sphere becomes a space of real security risks?
For a person, war does not end the moment the explosions fall silent. Sometimes it continues in dreams, in the body, in reactions to sounds, in distrust of loved ones, in the inability to plan for the future. But a traumatic experience can remain part of our story without becoming our entire story.
In a time of full-scale war, the term “human-centeredness” may sound almost paradoxical. When a country is fighting for its very right to exist, when human lives become part of military statistics, and when the state is forced to restrict citizens’ rights and freedoms, is it even possible to place the human being at the center?
Over the past few years, each of us has changed. Some have lost their homes, some have lost loved ones, and some have gone to fight. We have all been given experiences we did not choose. And perhaps it is precisely now that we are asking ourselves with particular urgency: what remains unchanged within us? What makes us who we are?
Critical analysis of the Law of Ukraine No. 2834-IX of 13 December 2022 “On the Basic Principles of State Policy in the Sphere of Consolidating Ukrainian National and Civic Identity” (hereinafter – the Identity Law) and the Strategy for Consolidating Ukrainian National and Civic Identity for the Period until 2030, approved by Resolution of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine No. 1322 of 15 December 2023.
The answer we propose appears simple at first glance, but it has unexpected consequences. The Church’s imagination is never a single thing. It operates simultaneously on several levels; it looks both ways, from the Church and toward the Church, and precisely for this reason it can be at once the greatest resource for social harmony and the deepest source of social division.
An interview with Vladyslav Boiko, a native of Varash, the satellite city of the Rivne Nuclear Power Plant. While still at school, he actively explored the operation of the energy facility and completed internships at the Chemical Department and the Ventilation and Air Conditioning Department.
Authors and participants of the Summer School: Almira Nesipbaieva, Daryna Rasputna, Anastasiia Khomiak In Ukraine, over the past few years, the word “future” has acquired
Applying a tourniquet to a wound or recognizing a fake in your news feed – which of these saves more lives today? At the Summer School of Journalism in Varash, we came to a clear understanding: these skills are equally important. During wartime, words can both heal and become weapons of mass destruction.
Is it possible to learn, in five days, how to hold the line, save lives, weave protective charms, and crush enemy propaganda? At the Summer School of the “Youth for the Future of Ukraine” project in Varash, they proved that it is possible. Especially when you are part of the generation that will very soon have to rebuild this country.
From 2 to 6 August, the Summer School of Media and Journalism took place in Varash, Rivne Region, as part of the “Youth for the Future of Ukraine” project. Young participants worked with journalism, video, critical thinking, and dialogue, and sought their own answers to the question: what should the Ukraine that we want to build be like?
“Coping with Collective Trauma: Russian War Crimes Against Children. Ways of Countering Them and Rehabilitation. How Can Society Help Restore and Protect Childhood in Ukraine?” – this was the topic of the latest webinar devoted to one of the most painful consequences of Russian aggression.
Hennadii Khrystokin, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor In the previous article, we demonstrated that the common good does not emerge through the proclamation of the “right”
A video featuring feedback from the participating teams of the Summer School of Journalism, held in Varash from 2 to 6 August.
There is a well-known observation that aptly describes our situation: people who use the same words often mean entirely different things. “Dignity,” “justice,” and “unity” are part of the vocabulary of virtually every public discussion about Ukraine’s future.
