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Webinar Local Government in Ukraine

WEBINAR
LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE

FORMATION, REFORMS, GEOPOLITICAL IMPLICATIONS AND POST-WAR RECOVERY

6 June 2022, 12:00-16:30 GMT

ORGANIZATION
IGU Commission Geography of Governance

This Webinar, organized by the IGU Commission on the Geography of Governance, explores and discusses the local government system in Ukraine, its formation and reforms after independence, its role in times of war, and its potential role in the post-war recovery. It aims to bring together researchers, geographers and other social scientists, working on these issues, and the wider public – citizens, policy makers and other stakeholders – in Ukraine and in other countries around the globe.

PROGRAM

Convenor: Carlos Nunes Silva (Chair of the IGU Commission Geography of Governance & Institute of Geography and Spatial Planning, University of Lisbon, Portugal)

Moderator:  Jan Bucek (Comenius University, Slovakia)

12:00 – 12:15 GMT
OPENING / WELCOME

Carlos Nunes Silva & Jan Bucek (IGU Commission Geography of Governance)

Viacheslav Oleshchenko (Acting President Ukrainian Geographical Society)

12:15 – 13:30 GMT

  • LOCAL GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE – FORMATION, MAIN PRINCIPLES, ACTUAL STATE POLICY AND LEGAL REGULATION

Viacheslav OLESHCHENKO (PhD Geography, MD Law, Associate Professor, and Senior Research Scientist. Acting President of the Ukrainian Geographical Society. Koretsky Institute of State and Law. National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Ukraine)

  • TRANSFORMATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL SYSTEM FOR EFFECTIVE DECENTRALIZATION OF POWER AND LOCAL SELF-GOVERNMENT IN UKRAINE

Pavlo OSTAPENKO (PhD Geography. Independent adviser of the State Authorities of Ukraine. Expert of international projects. Chairman of the Ukraine Researchers Society, Ukraine)

  • INTERGOVERNMENTAL FINANCE REFORM IN UKRAINE: 2014-2022 AND BEYOND

Tony LEVITAS (Senior Fellow, The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Brown University, USA; and Intergovernmental Finance Expert, Support to Decentralization Project, Swedish International Development Agency, Kyiv Ukraine)

13:45 – 15:15 GMT

  • FOUR GEOPOLITICAL DIMENSIONS OF UKRAINE’S DECENTRALIZATION: HOW KYIV’S CURRENT LOCAL GOVERNANCE REFORM AFFECTS POST-SOVIET INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Andreas UMLAND (PhD Cambridge, Analyst at the Stockholm Centre for Eastern European Studies at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Sweden; and Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, Ukraine)

  • EFFECTS OF THE UKRAINIAN DECENTRALISATION REFORM ON SOCIAL COHESION IN UKRAINE’S BORDER REGIONS

Aadne AASLAND & Oleksandra DEINEKO (Researchers at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research – NIBR at Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway)

  • THE RUSSIAN WAR AND NEW APPROACHES FOR THE FURTHER DEVELOPMENT OF TERRITORIES AND LOCAL COMMUNITIES IN UKRAINE

Anatoliy MELNYCHUK (PhD Geography, Associate Professor. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Faculty of Geography, Head of the Expert-Advisory Center for the Development of Communities and Territories, Ukraine)

  • UKRAINE’S DECENTRALISATION IN TIMES OF WAR: CONTRIBUTION TO DEFENCE AND LEGITIMACY

Valentyna ROMANOVA (PhD University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy, member of the Japan Association of Ukrainian Studies and the COST Network Intergovernmental Coordination from Local to European Governance, Japan)

15:30 – 16:00 GMT

  • MODERN SPATIAL PLANNING INSTRUMENTS FOR INTEGRATION OF LOCAL, REGIONAL AND NATIONAL AIMS AND INTERESTS FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND EURO INTEGRATION OF UKRAINE

Yuriy PALEKHA (Dr. Sc. Geography, Professor. Deputy-Director on Research of the Ukrainian State Juriy Bilokon Research and Planning Institute ‘DIPROMISTO’, Ukraine)

  • SPATIAL PLANNING AND GIS TECHNOLOGIES FOR INCREASING DEVELOPMENT CAPACITY OF LOCAL TERRITORIAL COMMUNITIES IN UKRAINE

Anastasiia OLESHCHENKO (PhD Geography. Creative Manager and Coordinator of Spatial Planning Branch in the Geospatial Solutions Agency “AGEORA”. USAID local expert, Ukraine)

16:00 – 16:15 GMT

  • CLOSING

Carlos Nunes Silva & Jan Bucek (IGU Commission Geography of Governance)

Participation is free and open to the public.

It requires registration, here: https://forms.gle/UFahC15ha2NJVWQD7

The Zoom link for the Webinar will be sent by email on 4 June to all participants registered.

Contact:

Carlos Nunes Silva, University of Lisbon, Portugal
E-mail: igu.geogov@gmail.com

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