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The Research Initiative on Democratic Reforms in Ukraine The Research Initiative on Democratic Reforms in Ukraine compiled by Olenka Bilash University of Alberta 2020 About RIDRU The Research Initiative on Democratic Reforms in Ukraine (RIDRU) (http://ridru.artsrn.ualberta.ca/) was a University of Alberta (U of A)-led research project that brought together leading scholars to explore ongoing democratic reform in the government of Ukraine in three key areas: nationalities, culture and language policies (NCLP), higher education (HE) reform, and law and governance (L&G)— both as they emerged in Ukraine and impacted the diaspora in Canada and beyond during the 2015– 18 period. The team of fourteen researchers from nine universities in North America, Europe, and Asia worked to analyse, document, and theorize the epochal transition of Ukraine’s government from a post-Soviet command system to a European democratic model of governance. This interdisciplinary/comparative project was supported by four funding bodies, namely: the Kule Institute of Advanced Study (KIAS) and the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies (CIUS), both at the University of Alberta; the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre (URDC) at MacEwan University; and the non-profit community organization Alberta Foundation for Ukrainian Education Society (AFUES). The research project studied the Ukrainian government’s democratic reform programme and its ongoing implementation with a view to assessing its feasibility, tracking its progress, formulating recommendations on its further development, and making policy recommendations for not only Ukraine but also for EU-Ukraine and Canada-Ukraine relations. In 2015, the Ukrainian government under President Poroshenko had set as its primary foreign economic policy goal the acquisition of membership in the EU. The deadweight, however, of authoritarian politics, crony capitalism, and Soviet-style bureaucracy were/are formidable obstacles to the success of any reform programme along Western lines, not to mention the inertia of over twenty years of half-hearted or no reforms. As the February 2014 Revolution and the unrelenting violent conflict indicated, Ukraine’s situation was close to desperate. It is within this context that RIDRU aimed to explore these reforms. Project participants For practical purposes and to capitalize on the scholarly strengths at the University of Alberta, the project selected three key areas of the government’s reform policy on which to concentrate initially. They are good governance and the rule of law (L&G), post-secondary education reform (HE), and nationalities and language policies (NCLP). While the overall project was lead by Dr. Olenka Bilash, she worked closely with each of the three research cluster leaders to build research capacity at the University of Alberta. Good governance and the rule of law was explored by a team of researchers around the world under the leadership of Dr. Bohdan Harasymiw. Participants included: Joanna Harrington Specialist in International Law, Constitutional law, and Comparative constitutional law Faculty of Law, University of Alberta Linda C. Reif Specialist in International Trade Investment Law; International Business Transactions; International Human Rights Law; Comparative Faculty of Law, University of Alberta Law Wayne Renke Expertise in evidence; Criminal Law; Criminal Procedure; Counter- Terrorism Faculty of Law, University of Alberta Thomas Hueglin Expertise in constitutional issues and federalism Professor of Political Science, Wilfrid Laurier University Olena Hankivsky Expertise in processes of democratization Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University Anastasiya Salnykova Expertise in processes of democratization PhD Candidate, Political Science, Simon Fraser University Juliet Johnson Expertise in the EU, post-communist Europe, and politics and money Professor, Political Science, McGill University Lucan Way Expertise in democratization and authoritarian democracy Professor of Political Science, University of Toronto Brian D. Taylor Expertise in reform of law enforcement bodies Professor, Maxwell School of Government, Syracuse University Allan Siaroff Professor of Political Science, University of Lethbridge “Establishing a western system of establishing core competencies in curricula” and “public student accessibility to future universities” are two reforms explored by a second team of international experts lead by Dr. Olenka Bilash, Dr. Jerry Kachur and Dr. Roman Petryshyn. The Higher education cluster consisted of: ii Roman Petryshyn Specialist in International development in Ukraine Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta Jerry Kachur Specialist in Comparative education Professor, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta Olenka Bilash Specialist in higher education Professor, University of Alberta Anatoly Oleksiyenko Specialist in higher education in Ukraine and post-Soviet contexts Professor, University of Hong Kong Serhij Kvit Expertise in organization and management of post-secondary education. President, NaUKMA and Minister of Education, Ukraine Olena Hankivsky Expertise in processes of democratization. Professor of Political Science, Simon Fraser University Ivan Kozachenko Expertise in diaspora studies Post-doc, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta Tamara Martsenyuk Expertise in gender studies Professor, NaUKMA Svitlana Oksamytna Expertise in study abroad Professor, NaUKMA Dr. Alla Nedashkivska lead a third research team and explored the government of Ukraine’s strategic plan to undertake a programme of support for national language as well as a reform of state policy in the area of culture. Cluster participants included: Alla Nedashkivska Specialist in Ukrainian linguistics, language politics, media and discourse analysis studies Professor, University of Alberta Olenka Bilash Specialist in language education and educational reforms Professor, University of Alberta iii Volodymyr Kulyk Specialist in Ukrainian national identity, language policy and language attitudes, ethnopolitics and media discourse Head research fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Svitlana Zhabotynska Specialist in in cognitive and neurophysiological linguistics, Ukrainian-Russian bilingualism Professor, the Department of English Philology, Bohdan Khmelnytskyi National University in Cherkasy, Ukraine Holger Kusse Specialist in cultural linguistics, politolinguistics, philosophy of language Professor, Department of Slavic Studies, Dresden Technical University Galina Yavorska Expertise in sociolinguistics, lexical semantics, discourse analysis, global and security studies. She researches relationships between Professor, the National Institute of Strategic Studies, Kyiv, Ukraine language and politics focusing on language ideologies and language loyalty Marianna Novosolova Expertise in cultural linguistics and pragmatics PhD student and research associate, Department of Slavic Studies, Dresden Technical University Svitlana Krys Expertise is comparative literature, current cultural reforms in Ukraine, particularly, the literary sphere Assistant Professor, MacEwan University We also relied upon the technological skills and creativity of Mr. Oleksandr Pankieiev to work on the RIDRU website and the Faculty of Arts team under the leadership of Mr. Clare Peters to manage our online conferences and recorded symposia. We wish to acknowledge the Faculty of Education’s instructional technology team—headed by Mr. Shane Klein—for overseeing the online recordings of presentations. Further, we extend gratitude to Mr. Oleksandr Pankieiev and Ms. Adriana Onita for monitoring the live interaction during our online conferences, and to Mr. Oleksandr Pankieiev for his intercultural and technological expertise overseeing the Kharkiv hub of our final online conferences. Finally, special thanks are extended to Susan Rajakaruna for her superb management skills during the first years of the project. Project goals The overall goal of the project was to analyse and document the epochal transition of the government of Ukraine from a post-Soviet command system model to a European democratic model of governance. As an interdisciplinary and comparative research project it positioned the University of Alberta as a leading centre internationally on this topic. It also built up several of the University’s iv research areas of strength and fit within three objectives of the University of Alberta’s Comprehensive Institutional Plan: Talented People; Learning, Discovery, and Citizenship; and Connecting Communities. The project was envisaged as (a) establishing three research teams of experts drawn from various disciplines in North America and Europe (b) building broader capacity toward research explorations in Ukraine through graduate student support, research project funding and reporting, and a series of on-line seminars; (c) implementing state-of-the-art computer communication, research reporting, and archiving systems; and (d) disseminating research findings through electronic conferences and peer-reviewed proceedings, and accessible archives. Project activities and outcomes To achieve its goals, RIDRU members and partners engaged in constructing new knowledge, building student capacity, developing a website, experimenting with different communication technologies, modeling long-term digital conferencing for educational and research purposes, sharing information with communities, and strengthening and expanding relationships with partner institutions.
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