Ukraine’s hidden tragedy: workshop

Ukraine’s hidden tragedy: understanding the outcomes of population displacement from the country’s war torn regions

Workshop led by Irina Kuznetsova and Vlad Mykhnenko

Date: 10th July 2018, 12:30 – 16:00 (Tuesday, 12th week, Trinity 2018)

The ongoing war in eastern Ukraine, following the de-facto annexation of Crimea by Russia in 2014, has shown the importance of the international community in providing support for almost 2 million of Ukraine’s internally displaced people (IDPs). The workshop focused on the most urgent problems faced by Ukraine IDPs in everyday life discovered during the project’s extensive fieldwork across Ukraine, including housing, jobs, property rights, health care, residential registration, and pensions. The panellists also discussed the current state of affairs in the areas of eastern Ukraine not under government control. The workshop concluded with a set of recommendations developed for international organisations, civic society, national and supra-national authorities aimed at preventing marginalisation and social exclusion of IDPs as well as assessing the economic impact of the armed conflict on Ukraine’s war-torn regions.

More information on the project and a policy brief can be found here.