Ukraine Assessment Report (Preliminary)
Authors: Kai Brand-Jacobsen, Mariia Levchenko, Laura Pistarini
Publisher: Department of Peace Operations (DPO) – PATRIR
This report has been prepared as part of the multi-phase assessment mission of the Peace Support Ukraine project by the Department of Peace Operations (DPO) of the Romanian Peace Institute (PATRIR) together with partners in Ukraine and in the diaspora. Although the full assessment will analyze the period between July 2022 and November 2022, this document shares preliminary findings to inform further strategic analysis of the developing situation on the ground and concrete actions to strengthen the international response to sustaining efforts by Ukrainian civil society, state and nonstate actors,
while ensuring comprehensive inclusion of Ukrainian voices. It represents the first part of a two-stage review of the needs, challenges, opportunities and critical areas of action identified by Ukrainian civil society organizations, experts, local authorities and national government institutions addressing the impact of the invasion and war on the people of Ukraine. As well as identifying key priorities for peacebuilding and addressing the impact of the armed conflict, invasion and temporary occupation of Ukrainian territories now, during the war, the report also identifies key measures needed to prepare now to be able to address critical needs for peacebuilding, stabilization and post-war recovery and peace consolidation after the ending of the war.
Active European Citizens Against Hate Speech
Hate, Euroscepticism, Citizenship: The Youth Connection
Comparative Report
The research objectives focus on the analysis of hate discourses and practices in terms of definitions, European and national standards, targets, actors, anti-discrimination policies, and good practices. It studies the emergence and manifestations of Euroscepticism in countries with predominantly Eurooptimistic and Eurorealistic sentiments. The study also examines civic activism as a key factor in countering hate discourses and practices and in promoting the European values of respect for difference, liberty, equality, and human dignity.
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Cluj Collaborates or Colaborarea Clujeană is a magazine by, about and for Cluj. It was created to make visible the amazing work that is being done by organisations, institutions and individuals across the community, and to celebrate and inspire creativity, collaboration, and practical engagements to make a difference in the lives of Clujeni.
The regular edition is more complex and has more articles (here you can explore the previous one), but given the current humanitarian crisis, our team was fully involved in the humanitarian aid offered to refugees from Ukraine and within Ukraine. Back in January 2022, we had three interviews with three amazing women and the incredible work they have been doing within their organizations/projects. We did not want to let these interviews to waste, thus we issued this special edition focusing solely on these three conversations.
If you wish for your initiatives, events, projects or publications to be featured in the next edition send us an email at [email protected]
Cluj Collaborates No. 6 | Colaborarea Clujeană Nr. 6
Cluj Collaborates or Colaborarea Clujeană is a magazine by, about and for Cluj. It was created to make visible the amazing work that is being done by organisations, institutions and individuals across the community, and to celebrate and inspire creativity, collaboration, and practical engagements to make a difference in the lives of Clujeni.
Cluj Collaborates is a magazine for all the people of Cluj. We hope to make us all: aware of the exciting, very often inspiring, and great work being done by so many different people and sectors in Cluj; identify issues and challenges which are important to us to address to improve quality of life and wellbeing of the people of Cluj; create connections and inspire collaboration, solutions-oriented approaches, and future initiatives, doing more together than can be done apart.
Collaboration is in the name in and everything that Cluj Collaborates is about. Collaboration within and across sectors, institutions, and our community as a whole.
Cluj Collaborates was born from the Cluj Roundtables organized by the Romanian Peace Institute – PATRIR in cooperation with the Cluj City Hall and bringing together public institutions, local government authorities, NGOs, civic and cultural institutions, universities, schools, companies and more.
Today, Cluj Collaborates is published in Romanian and English. We hope with our next edition to be in Hungarian as well. The publication is free and distributed online.
We want to thank all partners who have contributed to this edition! If you wish for your initiatives, events, projects or publications to be featured in the next edition send us an email at [email protected]
Polarisation, radicalisation and discrimination with focus on Central and Eastern Europe
The polarisation of society has now become a buzzword that is hardly missing from any political analysis. Trump, the Brexit, migration and the flight movement from the South to Europe, which has almost been pushed into the background again, also globalisation and climate change, and the Corona pandemic, which has been going on for a year now … In all these topic areas, a very fundamental polarisation of positionings is indeed emerging, which overshadows intermediate tones.
The focus of the issue on “Polarisation, Radicalisation and Discrimination in Europe” focuses in particular on the situation in Central and Eastern Europe in the practice of prevention and intervention in the field of democracy education, group-focused enmity and right-wing extremism. Contributors to this issue include those who have been working on-the-ground in the countries, as members of civil society organisations with a sharp and trained eye; those who work in municipalities, schools and extracurricular education as “fighters on the front line” (first-line practitioners, FLPs for short, e.g. teachers, social workers, NGOs, police) on a daily basis in regular structures, in training courses, and workshops as well as in counselling; and have in-depth insights and experience of the challenges, barriers and attempts at solutions.
The articles were written for the German journal Demokratie gegen Menschenfeindlichkeit.
This special issue has been produced within the Champions Project.
Cluj Collaboration - 5th edition
Editors
Cluj Collaboration Editorial Team
Project
Cluj Roundtables – CHAMPIONs
Each month, “Cluj Collaboration” shares news about events in Cluj, Europe and around the world of interest, as well as updates on upcoming Cluj roundtables, their reports, and news about courses and conferences. The fifth edition is now available online.
- Publisher
PATRIR - Location
Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Year
May 2021 - Download PDF
Romanian
Cluj Collaboration - 4th edition
Editors
Cluj Collaboration Editorial Team
Project
Cluj Roundtables – CHAMPIONs
Each month, “Cluj Collaboration” shares news about events in Cluj, Europe and around the world of interest, as well as updates on upcoming Cluj roundtables, their reports, and news about courses and conferences. This is the fourth edition of the monthly magazine.
- Publisher
PATRIR - Location
Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Year
March 2021 - Download PDF
Romanian
Cluj Collaboration - 3rd edition
Editors
Florina-Marieta Neagu
Project
Cluj Roundtables – CHAMPIONs
Each month, “Cluj Collaboration” shares news about events in Cluj, Europe and around the world of interest, as well as updates on upcoming Cluj roundtables, their reports, and news about courses and conferences. This is the third edition of the monthly magazine.
- Publisher
PATRIR - Location
Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Year
February 2021 - Download PDF
Romanian
Cluj Collaboration - 2nd edition
Editors
Florina-Marieta Neagu
Project
Cluj Roundtables – CHAMPIONs
Each month, “Cluj Collaboration” shares news about events in Cluj, Europe and around the world of interest, as well as updates on upcoming Cluj roundtables, their reports, and news about courses and conferences. This is the second edition of the monthly magazine.
- Publisher
PATRIR - Location
Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Year
January 2021 - Download PDF
Romanian
Cluj Collaboration - 1st edition
Editors
Florina-Marieta Neagu
Project
Cluj Roundtables – CHAMPIONs
Each month, “Cluj Collaboration” shares news about events in Cluj, Europe and around the world of interest, as well as updates on upcoming Cluj roundtables, their reports, and news about courses and conferences. This is the first edition of the monthly magazine.
- Publisher
PATRIR - Location
Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Year
December 2020 - Download PDF
Romanian
European Baseline report on current Organised Crime and Terrorist Networks specifics and collection of sources
As part of the project TAKEDOWN, our colleagues from FUNDEA have developed a European Baseline Report on organised crime and terrorism intended to set analytical fundamentals for the project. The report highlights the explanatory power and the deficits of existing models to tackle organised crime and terrorism, whilst comparing different approaches, strategies and policies related to these phenomena.
We in PATRIR as members of the TAKEDOWN consortium have been very active in this process, giving input and expertise when needed to. We appreciate and salut the efforts of FUNDEA and all the partners who collaborated in this report to shed some light on the European and international OC/TN landscape in terms of stakeholders, representatives, responses and solutions. From PATRIR, we consider this work crucial in terms of moving towards evidence-based policy making and programming.
More information
Project page
Designing Learning for Peace:
Peace Education Competence Framework and Educational Guidelines
Our colleagues and friends from United Network of Young Peacebuilders, ASHA Centre, European Intercultural Forum e.V., Humana People to People in Latvia and Habitat have developed a manual intended to provide a springboard for educators, learners and organisations to create further educational programmes and partnerships to promote Peace Education.
We as PATRIR have enjoyed being part of the process, giving input and expertise and we welcome and salute their efforts to mainstream peace education, to which PATRIR is dedicated as well.
More information
Project site
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Engish
Moldova-Transdnistria -
Working Together for a Prosperous Future -
Negotiation Process
Editors
Denis Matveev, Galina Shelari, Elena Bobkova, Bianca Cseke
Project
Making Visible the Economic and Social Costs of Frozen Conflict and Benefits of Peace – Moldova-Transdniestria (IMPACT)
Funders
Global Conflict Prevention Pool, British Embassy in Moldova