Dmitri Teperik met the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs
ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik participated in the meeting with the Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr Pavlo Klimkin, which took place on 6 July 2018 in Kyiv.
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National Resilience
ICDS presented in Kharkiv and Mariupol latest research report on Ukraine’s national resilience
ICDS organised two public presentations of the research study entitled “A Route to National Resilience: Building Whole-of-Society Security in Ukraine”. The events took place on 27 June 2018 in Kharkiv and 3 July 2018 in Mariupol.
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ICDS contributed to calculating of Disinformation Resilience Index
In co-operation with leading think tanks of the Central and Eastern European region, ICDS contributed to resilience assessment, which is presented in the form of the three composite indicators, each combining several variables:
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A Route to National Resilience: Building Whole-of-Society Security in Ukraine
Civil society is widely acknowledged as an important ingredient of democracy and a bulwark against authoritarianism.
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Seminar on national resilience in Kyiv and report presentation “Resilient Ukraine”
In the framework of a large-scale development cooperation project, focused on introducing Estonian experience to representatives of security sector in eastern Ukraine, ICDS-led team conducted a comprehensive research aimed at delivering realistic policy recommendations on acknowledging civil society’s role in strengthening national resilience and security in Ukraine and enhancing co-operation between the state authorities and civil society in this field.
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Societal Resilience in Eastern Ukraine: Building Solid Foundations for a Nation
The long-awaited and much-debated official adoption of the so-called Donbas De-Occupation Law by Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada provoked a heated discussion in Ukrainian society over the last three months on whether this legal act is merely a symbolic (if communicatively important) gesture to label Russia as a state aggressor, or whether it reflects a serious intention to create a strong foundation for the region’s re-integration.
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Seminar „Estonian Civil Protection Concept: The Way Ahead“ at ICDS
In February the Government of Estonia approved the civil protection concept, which will set out central activities to protect the well-being of people in cases of both civilian and military threats.
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Dmitri Teperik at the 11th Europe–Ukraine Forum
ICDS Chief Executive Dmitri Teperik participated in the 11th Europe–Ukraine Forum, which was held in Rzeszów, Poland on 13-14 March 2018.
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Book launch “Information Warfare”
On Friday, February 9th, The International Centre for Defence and Security hosted a seminar and book launch for “Information Warfare” by Saara Jantunen, which was recently translated from original Finnish into Estonian.
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Disinformation: A Fight for Crimea, Ukraine and the World
In discussing disinformation as a component of contemporary military conflicts, it is necessary to point out three key issues.
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