Conflict-Related Democracy Predictors in Ukraine: Tolerance and Participation Tendencies in Migration-Affected Communities

• Author: Svitlana Balinchenko
• Position: Ph.D., YuriyFedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)
• Pages: 4-16

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 5, 2019

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Conict-Related Democracy Predictors in Ukraine:

Tolerance and Participation Tendencies

in Migration-Aected Communities

Svitlana Balinchenko1

Ph.D., YuriyFedkovych Chernivtsi National University (Chernivtsi, Ukraine)

E-mail: sp.balinchenko@gmail.com

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8345-0522

Balinchenko, Svitlana (2019) Conict-Related Democracy Predictors in Ukraine: Tolerance

and Participation Tendencies in Migration-Aected Communities. Ukrainian Policymaker,

Volume 5, 4-16. https://doi.org/10.29202/up/5/1

In the paper, there have been presented the results of the comparative analysis, based on

the empirical data provided in public opinion surveys and civic engagement polls of residents

of Ukraine, 2017-2019. The investigation has been aimed at tracing the correlation, on the one

hand, between the civic literacy level of population, and proneness of the latter to the impact

of conict-related biases, and populist political agendas, in particular, region- and language-

related ones, concerning intergroup and intragroup relations between internally displaced

persons and host communities. On the other hand, tolerance to otherness, and readiness of

citizens to participate in peacebuilding initiatives, are reviewed through the perspectives and

risks of further communicative and educational transformations of the conict-restructured

communities in Ukraine; and the conclusion on urgent need in diagnostic and prospective

civic literacy and expectations mapping of the entire war-aected population, regardless of

the region, outlines the challenge yet to be faced by Ukrainian researchers and policymakers.

Keywords: Ukraine, civic literacy, civic engagement, protracted internal displacement, IDP,

tolerance, social cohesion

Received: October 10, 2019; accepted: November 15, 2019

© Balinchenko, Svitlana, 2019