Volunteer Movement in Ukraine in the Situation of External Aggression

• Author: Oleg Tkach and Anatoly Tkach
• Position: Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv (Kyiv, Ukraine)/Ph.D. student, Open International University of Human Development 'Ukraine' (Kyiv, Ukraine)
• Pages: 52-61

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 4, 2019

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Volunteer Movement in Ukraine in the Situation

of External Aggression

Oleg Tkach1

Doctor of Political Science, Professor, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv

(Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: tio19@ukr.net

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3131-1533

Anatoly Tkach2

Ph.D. student, Open International University of Human Development “Ukraine”

(Kyiv, Ukraine)

E-mail: tio19@ukr.net

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3254-8161

The paper analyzes volunteering as a factor in the self-organization of society in period Joint Forces

Operation, a new social need. It is proved that during the period of democratic transit the volunteer

movement became a factor of civic activism. It is emphasized that volunteering has become a political

institution of Ukrainian society, an element of the political system. Volunteering contributes to the

transformation of civil society. Volunteering acquired the status of a political institution, due to its

great importance in political life and signicant activity in the political sphere; at present it belongs

to social and political movements, which in a certain sense can be considered as groups of political

pressure; partnership with the state in solving important matters. A weighty function of volunteering

was the compensatory replacement of the state in the logistic support of the front line during the Russian

aggression against Ukraine. In volunteer activities, signicant nancial and material resources were

involved, it acquired a mobilization character. The number of volunteers and volunteer organizations has

increased many times. Volunteering has become a nationwide cause. Experts in information technology,

mechanics, weapons and military equipment specialists are involved in it. The motivation for volunteering

has become patriotic, civil and moral.

Keywords: volunteer, volunteering, institutionalization, political institution, social movement, Joint

Forces Operation, political transformation, state-society relations, public, volunteering policy, social

institute, volunteer’s movement

Received: March 23, 2019; accepted: April 19, 2019

Ukrainian Policymaker, Volume 4, 2019: 52-61.

https://doi.org/10.29202/up/4/8

© Tkach, Oleg, 2019

© Tkach, Anatoly, 2019