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International ConferenceUkrainian reconciliation Projects

and the FUtUre oF eUroPe

April 21-22, 2015Kyiv, Ukraine

International Institute for Ethics and Contemporary IssuesUkrainian Catholic University

Diplomatic Academy of UkraineMinistry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

International Conference

Ukrainian reconciliation Projectsand the FUtUre oF eUroPe


April 21 | 2015

Venue: Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine

16:30-17:00 Registration 17:00-17:30 Opening of the Conference

• Pavlo Klimkin, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine

• Mykola Kulinych, Rector of the Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine

• Rev. Bohdan Prach, Rector of Ukrainian Catholic University

17:30-20:30 Keynote Talks and Discussion PEACE AND RECONCILIATION:

THE GLOBAL CHALLENGE OF A WAR IN UKRAINE

17:30-18:30 Keynote Talks

Moderator: Volodymyr Turchynovskyy, Director of the International Institute for Ethics and Contemporary Issues

Keynote Speakers: • José Casanova, Professor at the Department of

Sociology at Georgetown University, Senior Fellow at Georgetown’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs (USA)

• Yaroslav Hrytsak, Professor of Modern History, Ukrainian Catholic University

• Bishop Borys Gudziak, St. Volodymyr the Great Eparchy in Paris for Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in France, Switzerland, and the Benelux

18:30-19:00 Coffee Break

19:00-20:30 Discussion

Participants: • Wolfgang Schüssel, Former Federal Chancellor of Austria

• Jan Tombiński, EU Ambassador to Ukraine

• Archbishop Major Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Head of Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church

• Roman Waschuk, Ambassador of Canada to Ukraine

• Shigeki Sumi, Ambassador of Japan to Ukraine

• Archbishop Thomas Gullickson, Apostolic Nuncio in Ukraine

• Viktor Yelenskyy, Deputy Head of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Spirituality, Ukrainian Parliament

• Pavlo Sheremeta, Dean of School of Public Administra-tion, UCU, Former Minister of Economical Development and Trade




April 22 | 2015

Venue: Diplomatic Academy of Ukraine

9:00-10:40 1st Panel EASTERN EUROPEAN TRAUMA OF COMMUNISM:

REFLECTING ANEW WITH A VIEW TOWARDS THE FUTURE

Moderator: Oleh Turiy, Vice Rector for Program Development, Ukrainian Catholic University

Panelists: • Mykhailo Minakov, Associate Professor of Department

of Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy

• Ingeborg Gabriel, Head of the Institute for Social Ethics, Member of the Ethics Commission of the University of Vienna

• Myroslav Marynovych, Vice-Rector for University Mis-sion, Ukrainian Catholic University


11:00-12:40 2nd Panel IDENTIFYING THE RECONCILIATION AGENDA,

STRATEGIES, AND CHALLENGES: A VIEW FROM UKRAINE

Moderator: Taras Dobko, Senior Vice Rector, Ukrainian Catholic University

Panelists: • Refat Chubarov, Leader of the Mejlis, the Executive-

Representative Body of Crimean Tatars

• Olena Styazhkina, Рrofessor at Donetsk National University

• Mykhailo Cherenkov, Professor of the Department of Philosophy, Ukrainian Catholic University

12:40-13:40 Lunch

13.40-15.20 3rd Panel RECONCILIATION AS A CASE STUDY: VALUES,

COMMON GOOD, AND THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Moderator: Myroslav Marynovych, Vice-Rector for University Mission, Ukrainian Catholic University

Panelists: • Gennadiy Druzenko, Government Commissioner for

Ethnic Policies, Ukraine

• Czesław Porębski, Professor, Jagiellonian University and Tischner European University in Krakow

• Edward Alam, Professor, Notre Dame University in Louaize (Lebanon), Director (for the Middle East) of the Council for Research in Values and Philosophy





15:40-17:40 Concluding Round Table UKRAINIAN RECONCILIATION EFFORTS AND ITS

INTERNATIONAL IMPACT

Moderator: Bishop Borys Gudziak, St. Volodymyr the Great Eparchy in Paris for Ukrainians of the Byzantine Rite in France, Switzerland, and the Benelux

Participants: • Peter McCormick, Permanent Member, L’Institut inter-

national de philosophie, Paris, France Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

• Yuriy Yekhanurov, Professor of Economics, Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, Former Prime Minister of Ukraine

• Eugeniusz Sakowicz, Head of the Department of Inter-cultural Education and Pedagogy of Culture, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyńskiego University in Warsaw, Poland

• Aloys Buch, Professor of Moral Theology, Dean, St. Lambert Interdiocesan, Major Seminary, Lantershofen, Germany

• Luc Jacobs, Ambassador of Belgium to Ukraine

• Olena Lytvynenko, Deputy Head of the Council of Europe Office in Ukraine

• Olesya Ostrovska-Lyuta, Member of Pro-Mova Expert Company, Former Deputy Minister of Culture in Ukraine

17:45 Closing of the Conference

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