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OSCE Project Co-ordinator pilots first training course for Ukrainians on dialogue as a tool for conflict management
Publishing date: 6 July 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 6 July 2017 – The first group of 20 Ukrainians gathered today in Kyiv for a four-day intensive training course on dialogue competencies, organized by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine supports draft amendments to the law on privatization of state-owned and municipal press
Publishing date: 1 June 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
Draft amendments to Ukraine’s Law on the Privatization of State–owned and Municipal Print Press were presented by lawyers of the State Committee for Television and Radio Broadcasting of Ukraine (SCTRBU), the Ukrainian Association of Media Business (UAMB), the Centre for Democracy and Rule of Law (CEDEM) and the Human Rights Platform NGO on 24 May 2017 in Kyiv, concluding a process supported by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine...
OSCE Project Coordinator in Ukraine starts series of trainings on psychological rehabilitation of conflict-affected populations
Publishing date: 19 May 2017
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine began training psychologists and social service providers in the psychological rehabilitation of conflict-affected populations on 17 and 18 May in Mariupol, Donetsk Region. This is the first in a series of events piloting the training course and manual developed in 2016 by the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine at the request of Ukraine’s Ministry of Social Policy...
OSCE Chairperson-in-Office Sebastian Kurz discusses future of Ukraine with youth
Publishing date: 17 January 2017
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Youth
KYIV, 17 January 2017- Members of the Youth Contact Group, established by the OSCE to promote inter-regional dialogue in Ukraine, today shared their visions of the future with OSCE Chairperson-in-Office and Austria’s Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz during a walking tour of Kyiv today...
OSCE-supported draft regulation on psychological assistance to conflict–affected Ukrainians presented to public
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 28 September 2016 – The draft regulation on psychological rehabilitation and psycho-social support of ex-combatants, their families and other conflict-affected people, developed with the support of OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, was put for public discussion today at a presentation in Kyiv...
OSCE Project Co-ordinator and Ukraine’s National Reforms Council discuss co-operation on improving reform efforts
Publishing date: 28 September 2016
Content type: News
Where we are: OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution, Good governance
The OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine, Vaidotas Verba and Dmytro Shymkiv, Deputy Head of Ukraine President’s Administration of President of Ukraine, who is also Secretary of the National Reforms Council (NRC), met on 27 September 2016 in Kyiv to discuss continuing support to the country’s reform agenda. National Reforms Council is a consultative body created under the President of Ukraine to plan, promote and track implementation of reforms...
OSCE donates equipment for the removal of the unexploded ordnance to State Emergency Service of Ukraine
Publishing date: 14 April 2016
Content type: Press release
Where we are: OSCE Chairmanship, OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine (closed)
What we do: Conflict prevention and resolution
KYIV, 14 April 2016 – On behalf of the OSCE Secretariat and in close cooperation with the Project Coordinator in Ukraine (PCU), Deputy to the OSCE Project Co-ordinator in Ukraine Jeffrey Erlich donated today to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine (SESU) the first lot of equipment for the removal of unexploded ordnances (UXO) in Donetsk and Luhansk regions.