The revolutionary moments are the key historical and social events in Ukraine during contemporary period. One of the most important components of these processes is civil activism and civil mobilization of Ukrainian society that led to evolutional and revolution events during 1990-1991, 2004-2005, and 2013-2015. Local population, former homo soveticus, intensively transformed to an active member of civil society. Ukrainians actively engaged into massive protests, NGO actions, and later – military actions in bloody restricted war. The important feature of local civil activism is its transformation to support of military actions for defense of Ukrainian territory after 2014 while civil mobilization actively reinforced state-led military mobilization.
The main goal of our conference is collection and analysis of Ukrainian and world experiences of civil and military mobilizations processes. We would try to demonstrate different aspects of these processes and show the interdependencies of civil processes with often-spontaneous nature and state-led army shaping activities. Our workshop would concentrate on following topics:
- the theoretical aspects of civil mobilization
- mechanisms of influence to mobilization potential
- human capital and mobilization
- the role of civil activism in social transformation
- the military component of civil conflicts
- interdependencies of civil and military mobilizations
Our two-day workshop would take place on the campus of Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute. We invite researchers to present their papers on topics that relate to the field of interest of our conference from Ukrainian, European or Global perspective. Presentations are 20 min. followed by a 10 min. session for Q/A and discussion. Please submit an abstract of your paper (350 words max.) and a short academic biography (1 page max.) by 25 December 2018.
There is a plan to publish a volume as the result of workshop’s discussions.
Contact persons:
Serhiy Choliy
Olena Akimova
Anna Ishchenko
e-mail: mobilizacia_ua_2018@ukr.net