UKRAINIAN-POLISH DIALOGUE FORUM
The Ukrainian-Polish strategic partnership is once again being tested for strength. In the conditions of Russian military aggression, ensuring trusting relations between Ukraine and Poland is one of the aspects of national security for Ukraine. It is important that this problem became the subject of discussion within the framework of the Ukrainian-Polish Dialogue Forum, which took place in Kyiv on February 10-11, 2024.
The organizers of the Forum were the Institute of International Security (Ukraine), the Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the NAS of Ukraine and the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Kuras Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine was represented at the Forum by: Director Oleg Rafalskiy – Doctor of Historical Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Vice-President of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Galyna Zelenko – Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Corresponding Member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Head of the Department of Political Institutes and Processes; Oleg Kalakura – Doctor of Political Sciences, Professor, Chief Researcher of the Department of Ethno-Political Science.
People’s deputies of Ukraine, representatives of the NSDC apparatus, the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine, the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, the Institute of National Remembrance, the State Archive of the SSU, the Institute of International Relations of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, the National Institute of Strategic Studies, the Precarpathian National University of Ukraine and others took part in the work of the Forum.
The holding of the Forum became an example of effective cooperation and interaction of state authorities, law enforcement agencies and scientists of Ukraine and Poland, an effort to coordinate efforts and find answers to challenges that arise in view of the extremely complex geopolitical situation in the region and the EU in general, in Ukrainian-Polish relations in today’s. Also, the Forum is a continuation of the cooperation between the leading political science institutions of the National Academies of Sciences of Ukraine and Poland, declared in the Agreement on Cooperation between these scientific institutions.
Within the framework of the Forum, two panel discussions were held: “Unification of the Ukrainian and Polish peoples against the background of Russian aggression” and “Ukraine-Poland: from misunderstandings in the past to a common future.” Lessons that must be learned in order to prevent new tragedies.”
Vadym Skibitskyi, Major General, Deputy Chief of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine
Andriy Kulikov, moderator of the Forum
Grzegorz Motyka, Director of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences
Oleg Kalakura spoke at the first panel with the report “Ethno-cultural dimension of the Ukrainian-Polish partnership against the background of Russian aggression”.
Oleg Kalakura
Forum participants
Lukash Adamskyi, deputy director of the Yuliusz Meroshevskyi Dialogue Center
Serhiy Chernov, President of the Congress of Self-Government of Ukraine
Jakub Bjorny, Head of the Department of International Relations at the University of Wroclaw
Pyotr Kulpa, program director of the School of Ministers of the Kyiv School of Public Administration named after Serhiy Nizhnyi
During informal communication
According to the results of the Forum, a Resolution was adopted with the intention of continuing cooperation between representatives of the authorities and scientists of both countries, outlining further steps to prevent the escalation of contradictions between the two countries. Forum participants emphasized the importance of developing Ukrainian-Polish cooperation as a strategic partnership, reloading the foundational documents and institutions of the Ukrainian-Polish interstate dialogue.