Maria Repko, Deputy Director of the Centre for Economic Strategy and a member of the RRR4U consortium, contributed an article to the report “Resilience and Solidarity – Ukrainian Civil Society in the Face of War,” published by the Batory Foundation.

War reveals the true resilience of states and their societies. Ukrainian society, together with public institutions, local authorities, and the military, has proven strong enough to withstand aggression from the Russian Federation – an adversary that is, at least nominally, far more powerful. One of the pillars of Ukraine’s remarkable resilience is its proactive civil society, which not only rises in times of revolutionary upheaval but engages daily in matters of public importance: supporting the armed forces, caring for veterans and forcibly displaced persons, fighting corruption and overseeing government structures at both local and national levels, documenting war crimes committed by Russians, protecting cultural heritage, as well as fostering its development even under wartime conditions.

The collection “Resilience and Solidarity” consists of texts by Ukrainian experts and interviews with Ukrainian civil society activists. The publication seeks to describe and explain the mechanisms behind the functioning of Ukrainian civil society, which has proven remarkably adept at handling the most challenging of realities.

The collection includes texts by Edwin Bendyk, Alevtina Kakhidze, Piotr Kosiewski, Andriy Lubko, Olesya Ostrovskaya-Luta, Valeriy Pekar, Maria Repko, Olha Reznikova and Mykola Ryabchuk, as well as conversations between Piotr Andrusieczko and Taras Czmut, Adriy Dlihach, Lyubov Halan, Tamara Hundorova, Julia Krasilnykova, Oleksandr Matviychuk, Viktor Nestula, Halyna Petrenko and Yevhen Shapoval.