The Situation in Belarus and Challenges for Civic Education

October 5th 2020 17:00 – 18:00 CEST

The Situation in Belarus and Challenges for Civic Education

The meeting is held online (ZOOM) in Russian with simultaneous translation into English
Live Stream in Russian: https://www.facebook.com/eence4you/
For English version and for active participation in English or Russian please register: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-sUoTN9vSemGGkijTudbxw

Belarus is a country in the center of Europe. Geographically. But as for political geography, more questions than answers arise now around the world and not only in Europe. How did it happen that thousands of Belarusians, kept silent for 26 years, went on demonstrations from the beginning of August until now? Is Covid 19 the reason for it or should we immerse deeper into history, psychology, sociology and analysis of political events in recent decades? Why do people go out to demonstrations every weekend? Is it a capital city phenomenon or a (social) regularity? Many questions we’ll try to answer with the speakers from Belarus.

The task of citizenship education is inter alia to translate complex topics into an understandable, public language and present them in all existing – even contradicting each other – angles.
Citizenship education is quick and empathetic. It can adapt to new realities, or it can shape these realities by itself. We’ll try to define the role of civic education in Belarus today and under different future scenarios of the country’s development too, with our speakers and you.

From 17:00 – 18:00 CEST on Monday 5 October we will hear the views of Prof. Vladimir Yanchuk, Dr. Tatiana Vodolazhskaya (Flying University) and Dr. Oksana Shelest (Center for European Transformation).
The conversation will be led by prof. Yuriy Petrushenko (Ukraine), Member of the Coordination Council of the East European Network of Citizenship Education EENCE (www.eence.eu).