Registration, refreshments and networking

10.00

Welcome

Jacqueline Hodgson, Professor of Law and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Research, University of Warwick

10:05

Plenary: The war with planetary consequences?

Chair: Elena Korosteleva, Professor of Global Sustainable Development & Director, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick.

Speakers:

• Russia’s war in Ukraine and the Belarus factor, HE Dirk Schuebel, Ambassador and Head of the Delegation of the European Union to Belarus
• Sustainability in the context of reconstruction of Ukraine, Martin Mühleck, Policy Officer, European Commission Support Group for Ukraine
• European future for Ukraine and its significance to the geopolitical developments in the Eastern part of the European , Andrius Kubilius, Member of the European Parliament and member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
• Kataryna Wolczuk, Professor of East European Politics, Centre for Russian, European and Eurasian Studies, University of Birmingham

11:30 - 12:45

Panel 1. Energy Security in the context of Russia’s war: from cascading risks to global effects?

Chair: Michael Bradshaw, Professor of Global Energy, Warwick Business School, and academic lead for the University of Warwick’s Global Research Priority on Energy.

Speakers:

• Will the war in Ukraine derail the global sustainability agenda? Tim G. Benton, Professor of Population Ecology, University of Leeds, and Research Director at Chatham House in Energy, Environment and Resources
• Russia’s war on Ukraine: Implications for International Energy Security, Borys Dodonov, Head of the Centre for Energy and Climate Studies, Kyiv School of Economics Institute (KSE Institute)
• The implications of the war in Ukraine for global and/or regional (the wider Black Sea-Caspian region) energy developments, Ahmad Humbatov, Head of the Energy & Sustainability Programme, Institute for Development & Diplomacy, ADA University
• How can social science contribute to energy security policy? Rosie Robison, Associate Professor, Global Sustainability Institute, Anglia Ruskin University

Lunch

Panel 2. Food Insecurity: From local chain disruptions to global crisis?

Chair: Nikoleta Jones, Associate Professor of Global Sustainable Development, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick

Speakers:

• Oleg Nivievskyi, Assistant Professor, Kyiv School of Economics, Center for Food and Land Use research
• Household food security, causes, solutions and geopolitical upheavals, Martine J. Barons, Director of the Applied Statistics & Risk Unit, academic lead for University of Warwick Global Research Priority on Food
• Europe’s Fuel and Fertilizer Frenzy, Lauren Young, Research Analyst, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI)

Panel 3. Obliterated infrastructures and displaced persons: What are the consequences for global sustainability?

Chair: Jon Coaffee, Professor of Urban Geography, Department for Politics and International Studies, and academic lead for the University of Warwick Global Research Priority on Sustainable Cities

Speakers:

• Understanding Ukraine's forced displacement: insights and lessons for today's crises, Vlad Mykhnenko, Associate Professor of Sustainable Urban Development, St Peter’s College, University of Oxford
• Neo Loizides, Professor of International Conflict Analysis, University of Kent
• Maria Koinova, Professor of International Relations, Department for Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick
• War and property rights: loss assessment, restitutions and property rights management, Denys Nizalov, Associate Professor in Agricultural Economics, De Montfort University

Coffee Break

Panel 4. The Human Dimension: what lessons for democratic sustainability?

Chair: Irina Petrova, Assistant Professor, UCL SSEES (i.petrova@ucl.ac.uk)

Speakers:

• Richard Youngs, Professor in PAIS and Senior Fellow in the Democracy, Conflict and Governance Programme, Carnegie Europe
• Belarusian civil society in times of political crisis: main challenges and needs, Tatsiana Chulitskaya, Senior Researcher, Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
• The resilience of Ukrainians at home and abroad during the war, Anastasiia Kudlenko, Research Fellow, Ukraine project, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick

Closing remarks

Elena Korosteleva, Professor of Global Sustainable Development & Director, Institute for Global Sustainable Development, University of Warwick.

Drinks and Networking