Track III-I Dialogues
Research & Transfer Project "Track III Dialogues in Ukraine - Major Trends and Challenges"
Research & Transfer Project "Track III Dialogues in Ukraine - Major Trends and Challenges"
The research project "Track III Dialogues in Ukraine - Major Trends and Challenges" was conducted jointly by the Center for Peace Mediation and the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence in EU Studies at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy Ukraine in 2016-2017.
In March 2016, the Center for Peace Mediation and Tetiana Kyselova (Kyiv Mohyla Academy National University) In cooperation with the Robert Bosch Foundation hosted the expert round table “Implementing Mediation and Dialogue in Ukraine: Cultural and Institutional Impediments and Possible Improvements“. The participants were international mediation and dialogue experts from academia and practice, e.g. from ETH Zurich, swisspeace, the HD Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue, MediatEUR and the OSCE.
The “Track III Dialogues” project was one of the first research-based attempts to better understand the various challenges of civil society dialogues in Ukraine, with the explicit aim of providing a scientific basis for systematic responses to these difficulties. The project identified the most serious obstacles to the success of dialogue and peace mediation processes in Ukraine on Track III, initiated reflection on possible meaningful responses and identified key questions for further research. The project's action research approach involved Ukrainian and international mediation and dialogue practitioners in the analysis of challenges and strategies to overcome them.
After 2017, Tetiana Kyselova deepened the research after the end of the project in 2017, the CPM expanded and extended its activities in the context of Ukraine-Russia to other tracks.
Project overview
- CPM/CSSP/inmedio (2024): Military support AND diplomacy - and what the Swiss "peace summit" can achieve. Statement by the organisations of the Mediation Support Germany initiative.
- Holper/Kyselova (2020): Inclusion Dilemmas in Peacebuilding and Dialogues in Ukraine. In: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, 27(3): 475-485.
- Kraus (now Holper)/Frazer/Kirchhoff/Kyselova/Mason/Palmiano Federer (2019): Dilemmas and Trade-Offs in Peacemaking: A Framework for Navigating Difficult Decisions, Vol. 7 (4): 331-342.
- Kyselova/Kraus (now Holper)/Kirchhoff/von Dobeneck (2017): Track III Dialogues in Ukraine: Full Research Report. Center for Peace Mediation/Kiev-Mohyla Academy.
- Kerber/Kraus (now Holper) (eds.) (2017): Dialogue in Odessa, Ukraine. Findings and suggestions based on a series of interviews with local dialogue actors. Center for Peace Mediation.
- Kyselova/von Dobeneck (2017): Track III Dialogues in Ukraine: Major Patterns and Resulting Risks. Research-based Policy Paper. Ukrainian version.
- Kyselova/von Dobeneck (2017): Діалоги на рівні громадянського суспільства в Україні: основні тренди та ризики. Research-based policy paper. Ukrainian version.
- von Dobeneck/Kraus (now Holper)/Kyselova (2016): Challenges to Mediation and Dialogue in Ukraine: Distrust in Procedures and a Dysfunctional Market. Discussion Paper.
- von Dobeneck/Kraus (now Holper)/Kyselova (2016): ВИКЛИКИ МЕДІАЦІЇ ТА ДІАЛОГУ В УКРАЇНІ: НЕДОВІРА ДО ПРОЦЕДУР І ДИСФУНКЦІЙНИЙ РИНОК. АНАЛІТИЧНА ДОПОВІДЬ.
- 16 April 2024: Informal exchange on diplomacy and dialogue in war with the Ukrainian Community of Dialogue Practitioners (CoP) at CSSP - Berlin Center for Integrative Mediation
- 22 May 2023: Informal exchange with the Ukrainian Community of Dialogue Practitioners (CoP) on the occasion of the publication of Ukraine Peace Appeal: Towards a more informed solidarity at CSSP - Berlin Center for Integrative Mediation
- 9 November 2020: Online Peaceland Talk on "Inclusion Dilemmas in Peacebuilding and Dialogue" with Tetiana Kyselova, Anne Holper and Karina Korostelina
- 9 September 2019: Paper presentation on the article "Inclusion Dilemmas in Peacebuilding and Dialogues in Ukraine" at the Conflict Research Society Conference in Brighton
- 28 November 2018: Lecture and discussion "Excluded Identities in Ukraine: What to do with 'the other Ukrainians'?" at the B/Orders in Motion Research Factory of the European University Viadrina
- 10 March 2016: Experts Round Table "Limits and Obstacles of Mediation and Dialogue in Post-Soviet Societies, Focus: Ukraine"
- 2014-2015: Support for dialogue actors in Odesa, Ukraine "The Common House - Supporting and Broadening Dialogue Processes"
Funding: Robert Bosch Foundation
Research:
- Julia von Dobeneck, European University Viadrina
- Dr Anne Holper, European University Viadrina
- Imke Kerber, European University Viadrina
- Prof Dr Lars Kirchhoff, European University Viadrina
- Dr Tetiana Kyselova, Kyiv-Mohyla Academy