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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Civil society is widely acknowledged as an important ingredient of democracy and a bulwark against authoritarianism.
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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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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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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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In remarks delivered at the International Centre for Defence and Security (ICDS) in Tallinn on Friday, Minister of Defence Jüri Luik (IRL) said that Estonian residents consider terrorism a bigger threat than Russia’s actions.
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On July 18-19, 2017 ICDS experts participated in the joint NATO PDP conference Ukraine-Georgia „Professional Development as an essential Part of the Public Sector Reform“, which took place in Kyiv at the Diplomatic Academy under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.
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