What we achieved in the period of 2022-2024

February 2022 – Conducted the first dialogue among representatives of various Protestant denominations, focused on pressing socio-political challenges.

February – July 2022 – Facilitated the operation of the informal network Help in Action, established to coordinate various types of emergency assistance during the initial active phase of the full-scale invasion. The initiative was supported by participants of previous Dialogue in Action project cohorts and its partners.

September 2022 – December 2024 – Conducting closed-door inter-Orthodox dialogues. During this period, four meetings were organized between representatives of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Church of Ukraine. The formats included both joint and separate sessions, consisting of preliminary consultations, dialogue meetings, post-dialogue discussions, and international consultations.

October 2023 – Published the research study “Mapping the Religious Landscape of Ukraine” together with The United States Institute of Peace.

• Became official partners of The United States Institute of Peace.
• Became the only member in Ukraine for The Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers.

October 2022 – November 2024 – Implemented and completed the two-year project Dialogue in Action: Circle.
The project involved training two secular-religious groups, each comprising 15–20 participants from various regions of Ukraine. The groups included representatives of diverse Christian denominations, Muslims, and secular individuals.

• This period included four five-day workshop sessions, online and in-person supervision sessions for participants, and a final two-day in-person meeting.
• The training program covered the following topics: restorative practices, understanding peacebuilding, dialogue and conflict management, context-sensitive analysis, psyche architecture, understanding forgiveness, and comparative theologies of peace and war.
• An alumni network, Alumni of Dialogue in Action, was established as part of the project.

March – November 2024 - Conducted a study on religious coping strategies among people of faith in Ukraine, titled Faith-based peacebuilding: researching religious coping and developing restorative practices in Protestant seminaries, along with a study of hospitality practices in partnership with the Scholar Leaders Foundation.

• • A total of 208 quantitative surveys were collected through face-to-face interviews across six regions in Ukraine (Poltava, Dnipropetrovsk, Odesa, Kyiv, Lviv, and Rivne) and two cities in Poland (Warsaw and Gdańsk). The respondents included believers from various Christian denominations (Orthodox, Greek Catholics, and Protestants of various streams) and secular people who sought support in churches.
  • Twenty-seven qualitative interviews were conducted.
  An analytical report has been developed and published in both Ukrainian and English.

March 2024 – Conducted training sessions on conflict-sensitive analysis for the organizations Caritas Ukraine and Caritas-Spes Ukraine in collaboration with Swisspeace.

April – November 2024 – Developed and implemented the training program Defender at Home. The program was delivered to over 200 participants across several regions of Ukraine. The goal of the training was to foster a culture of acceptance of defenders in communities, aimed at strengthening practices for the reintegration of servicemen and women as well as communities.

October 2024 – Participated in and facilitated two panel discussions during the 17th Ecumenical Social Week, Community Resilience: A Path to Healing and Restoration of the Country, at the Ukrainian Catholic University:

• Panel discussion: “Among One’s Own: Reintegration of Communities and Servicemen and Women”.
• Panel discussion: “Community as a Collective: Practices for Building Resilience and Cohesion”.

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July – November 2024 – Developed and conducted regional and nationwide workshops on context-sensitive analysis for representatives of religious and para-religious organizations in collaboration with The Network for Religious and Traditional Peacemakers.

Throughout 2024 – Provided support to educational initiatives in the field of peacebuilding. The work was carried out in collaboration with Christian educational institutions, specifically 9 Protestant seminaries, including the Tavrian Christian Institute and the Ukrainian Evangelical Theological Seminary, in partnership with Mesa Global in the frames Seminary and Peacebuilding department.

In 2024 – Conducted more than 10 facilitation events for partner organizations.

Between 2022 and 2024 — Released 16 academic publications.

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1. D. Brylov, C. De Coning, T. Kalenychenko, M. Lehti. Winning the Peace: The Role of Agonistic and Adaptive Peacebuilding in Sustaining Social Cohesion in Ukraine. International Negotiation, december 2024: https://brill.com/view/journals/iner/aop/article-10.1163-15718069-bja10105/article-10.1163-15718069-bja10105.xml

2. T. Kalenychenko. A Pandemic Shock. How Key Orthodox Churches in Ukraine Faced the Challenge of COVID-19. - The Pandemic and the Paradox of Orthodoxy, Euxeinos, Volume 14, Issue 37, 2024

3. Brylov, Kalenychenko. The Identity Migration of Religious Actors during the War in Ukraine (since 2014). - War, Migration, Memory. Perspectives on Russia's War Against Ukraine, 2024: https://www.transcript-verlag.de/978-3-8376-7587-0/war-migration-memory/?number=978-3-8394-7587-4

4. Guest editors Juliia Buyskykh and Tetiana Kalenychenko, Etnografia Polska: UKRAINE: LIVED EXPERIENCES OF PAST AND PRESENT. - Tom 67 Nr 1–2 (2023): https://journals.iaepan.pl/ep/issue/view/193

5. Denys Brylov;  Tetiana Kalenychenko;  Andrii Kryshtal, Mapping the Religious Landscape of Ukraine. – US Institute for Peace, 2023: https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/10/mapping-religious-landscape-ukraine

6. Denys Brylov, Tetiana Kalenychenko, and Pavlo Smytsnyuk, Ukraine’s Far-Right Movements and Their Connections to the Religious World. - Gionathan Lo Mascolo (ed.), The Christian Right in Europe: Movements, Networks, and Denominations, Transcript Publishing, 2023: https://www.transcript-publishing.com/978-3-8376-6038-8/the-christian-right-in-europe/

7. Denis Brylov and Tetiana Kalenychenko, Ukraine’s Religious Landscape: Between Repression and Pluralism. - Madlovics, Bálint and Magyar, Bálint, eds. 2023. Ukraine’s Patronal Democracy and the Russian Invasion: The RussiaUkraine War, Volume One. Budapest– Vienna–New York: CEU Press: https://ceupress.com/book/ukraines-pa-tronal-democracy-and-russian-invasion

8. Kalenychenko, Hovorun, Brik, Church fragmentation and the pandemic: Analysis of four eastern Christian groups in Ukraine, - Orthodox Christianity and Covid-19 Pandemic, Routledge, 2023: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003372776/orthodox-christianity-covid-19-pandemic-tornike-metreveli?_gl=1*pufpyy*_ga*MTI1NzEzNDAzLjE2OTE3NjE1MTE.*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTcwMDEyODUwMC41LjAuMTcwMDEyODUwMC4wLjAuMA&fbclid=IwAR0tNZVi2B1oJ2-fqaNvd8MkigGcUOvkYZbxwhjrhuHlLprHx7xUi2SoTjY

9. Brylov, Kalenychenko, Identity Migration of Orthodox Churches During the War in Ukraine (Since 2014). - FORUM TRANSREGIONALE STUDIEN, 2023: https://trafo.hypotheses.org/48569

10. T. Kalenychenko, Ukrainian Religious Actors and Organizations After Russia's Invasion: The Struggle for Peace. – Policy paper made for Berkley Center: https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/publications/ukrainian-religious-actors-and-organizations-after-russia-s-invasion-the-struggle-for-peace

11.  Brylov, Kalenychenko, Mandaville, Assessing Kyiv’s New Focus on “Spiritual Independence”, Berkley Center, https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/posts/assessing-kyiv-s-new-focus-on-spiritual-independence

12.  Lidiya Lozova and Tetiana Kalenychenko, The Role of the Laity: Some Observations from Inside. - Orthodoxy in Two Manifestations? The Conflict in Ukraine as Expression of a Fault Line in World Orthodoxy, Peter Lang, 2022, 428 p.

13.  Tetiana Kalenychenko et Denis Brylov, "« Celui qui sauve une vie sauve le monde entier » : les communautés religieuses ukrainiennes pendant la guerre – version française". Bulletin de l'Observatoire international du religieux N°37 [en ligne], mai 2022. https://obsreligion.cnrs.fr/bulletin/celui-qui-sauve-une-vie-sauve-le-monde-entier-les-communautes-religieuses-ukrainiennes-pendant-la-guerre-version-francaise/  Tetiana Kalenychenko and Denis Brylov, "“Whoever saves one life saves the world entire”: Ukrainian religious denominations during the war – English version". Bulletin de l'Observatoire international du religieux N°37 [en ligne], mai 2022. https://obsreligion.cnrs.fr/bulletin/whoever-saves-one-life-saves-the-world-entire-ukrainian-religious-denominations-during-the-war-english-version/

14.  Denis Brylov;  Tetiana Kalenychenko, Religious Mobilization in Ukraine. An on-the-ground perspective on how religious leaders are shaping the conflict’s trajectory. – USIP, 2022: https://www.usip.org/publications/2022/03/religious-mobilization-ukraine

15.  Tetiana Kalenychenko, Displacement and Displacement Again. – Society for Cultural Anthropology: https://culanth.org/fieldsights/displacement-and-displacement-again

16.  Tetiana Kalenychenko, Auf der Suche: Religionsgemeinschaften und Zivilgesellschaft nach dem Majdan. - Religion & Gesellschaft in Ost und West, 3/2022