INTERNATIONAL SCIENTIFIC AND PRACTICAL CONFERENCE “SOCIAL RESILIENCE AND SOLIDARITY IN TIME OF WAR: EXPERIENCE OF UKRAINE AND POLAND”

On March 21-22, 2025, an international scientific and practical conference “Social Resilience and Solidarity in Time of War: The Experience of Ukraine and Poland” was held in Kyiv at the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine with the support of the Stefan Batory Foundation (Poland).

The conference was attended by researchers from the Institute of Sociology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, University of Social Sciences and Humanities in Warsaw, University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and London School of Economics.

The topic of social resilience and solidarity between Ukraine and Poland has many common and special experiences of Ukrainian and Polish societies, starting from the era of post-tory revolutions and the lessons of the Polish Solidarity movement to the current dramatic circumstances of the war in which Ukraine is defending its independence and identity against Russian invaders. In this war, Poland, as a neighboring country, has demonstrated many examples of genuine social and political solidarity towards Ukraine, supporting the social resilience of our country and also shaping its national mobilization experience.

During the conference

Galyna Zelenko, Head of the Department of Political Institutions and Processes, Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, made a presentation on “The Impact of the Constitutional Model of Organization of Power on the Functionality of Political Institutions (on the Example of Ukraine and Poland)”. In her report, she showed “the interdependence between the nature of procedural norms and the effectiveness of teleological constitutions in two countries”.