For a long time, Ukraine was built on the legacy of a state that had been the greatest threat to its own society. The Revolution of Dignity and the war with Russia prompted a rethinking of the relationship between the state and the citizen as a balance of rights and duties — and became catalysts for profound transformations. Today, we increasingly understand that statehood itself is the guarantee of Ukrainians’ existence as a nation.
How does totalitarian trauma affect our relationship with the state, and what should we truly be wary of? What does a state that is open to people mean, and who should build it? Which model of governance will prove more resilient in conditions of global instability? And what do we need in order to preserve our own agency?
In the RIGHTS NOW! lecture programme, Yevhen Hlibovytsky — public intellectual, co-founder and CEO of the Frontier Institute, member of the Supervisory Board of Suspilne Broadcasting, lecturer at the Ukrainian Catholic University and a member of this year’s jury for the RIGHTS NOW! special award at Docudays UA — will speak about the consequences of colonial policies, a new social architecture and a culture of trust, as well as the challenges we will have to face.
