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Від минулого до майбутнього через сьогодення
From the Past to Future through Perfection

A Hard Way to Ukrainian-Polish Interpersonal Understanding

Author(s): Jurij Makar
Subject(s): Politics, Political history
Published by: Instytut Studiów Politycznych PAN
Keywords: Poles; Ukrainians; interpersonal relations; stereotypes; negotiations; scientific forums

Summary/Abstract: This conference is not the fi rst attempt by Ukrainian and Polish scholars to understand the common tragic heritage of their countries and determine prospects for overcoming it in the name of a better common future. However, this one is organised under the special conditions of the war initiated by the Russian Federation against Ukraine, which forces Ukrainians and Poles to seek a real way to overcome the stereotypes of the past. The author analyses a number of documents and studies, refers to his own experience and expresses a number of judgements about the need to overcome obstacles to a further rapprochement of the Polish and Ukrainian people based on satisfactory inter-state relations in the context of European integration processes.

  • Issue Year: 71/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 157-170
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Ukrainian