Some countries value freedom and prosperity. Their security strategy will, in this case, be to protect and enrich. Others value fear and people’s dependency on the state, economic dependency in particular. The security strategy of those states will be aggression and destruction. Can the security order be one for all?
What are the values which define strategies and tactics of the states, declaring protection and preserving the wellbeing of their people, specifically when the world is handling the pandemics of 2020? The war which Russia has been leading against Ukraine for 7 years continues to run a crash-test of the international system of collective security.
Can the new model of cooperation between the countries in the Black Sea become a safeguard from Russia’s further aggression in the region?
The information has already ceased to be freedom only. Over the last decades, it transformed into a valuable resource and even became a power over people – the power acting as check and balances, the power which now threatens freedom it has emerged from. Can we preserve human dignity and protect freedom under total arbitrariness of the power of information?
What are the consequences of COVID pandemics for international security order and liberal values? What are the old and new security challenges under conditions of global isolation? What does the new Russian Constitution mean for the existing security order?
Moderator: Oksana Syroid, Co-chair of Lviv security forum, Leader of Samopomich Union political party
Keynote speaker: Carmen Romero, NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary-General for Public Diplomacy
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Are Russian aggressive actions in the Black Sea and hybrid aggression really a common challenge for the region? What are the obstacles and disputes which constrain the countries of the region from cooperation and how can they be overcome? What is the vision of the region that is in the interest of all states in a longer-term perspective?
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What are the steps towards building a common vision of the Black Sea regional security and prosperity? How Russian aggressive military policy in the region and the Black Sea can be deterred by common effort? How shall the individual states cooperate with each other, USA and NATO to achieve the common goals?
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Public interview of Let. Gen. Ben Hodges to Ukrainian and international media
Interviewers:
1. Brian Bonner, Kyiv Post, Editor in Chief
2. Yuriy Lapayev, Ukrainian week, journalist
3. Dmytro Yevchyn, Radio Liberty, presenter of Crimea: Realia tV program
What are the information security challenges revealed by the pandemics and how they can be countered? What international efforts should be done to protect personal informational identity?
Moderator: Oksana Syroid, Co-chair of Lviv security forum, Leader of Samopomich Union political party
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What are the information security challenges revealed by the pandemics and how they can be countered? What international efforts should be done to protect personal informational identity?
Moderator: Oksana Syroid, Co-chair of Lviv security forum, Leader of Samopomich Union political party
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