Prof. Korosteleva attends a Senior Leaders Workshop (highly recommended!) today focusing on Dealing Constructively with Conflict. 

In the context of internal change and transformation and an external societal, economic and, sometimes, political environment, Higher Education institutions and their diverse people will inevitably encounter conflict. How can academic leaders and managers develop and practise the right skills and behaviours to deal constructively with conflict – both within and across faculty boundaries. The workshop draws on Common Purpose’s cross-boundary thought leadership and experiential approach, which includes insights from senior leaders from outside of the university, as well as tools and practices specifically focused on:

• Active listening and effective questioning

• Challenging Assumptions

In doing so, we aim to:

• Better support colleagues with articulating and asserting their rights and responsibilities and equip them to respectively push back and challenge others.

• Embed a positive mindset towards conflict, prioritising common purpose and positive relationships when navigating complex and detailed situations or programmes of work.

• Reduce challenge and conflict: Anticipate areas of challenge from others and mitigate where appropriate.

2024 is a year of elections round the world. In Ukraine, the war has delayed an election due at the expiry of President Zelenskyy's original five-year term. In February, Belarus will hold a parliamentary election - its first vote since the 2020 protests - and both the country and its opposition look towards 2025 when a presidential election is due.

This webinar will discuss the prospects for a democratic vote in Ukraine without peace, and in Belarus without democracy.

Speakers

Francesca Cardona*, European External Action Service

Yevhen Mahda, Director, Institute of World Policy (Ukraine)

Philipp Bikinau, independent sociologist

Alexander Shlyk, Special Adviser on Elections, Office of Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya