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The Ukraine-wide school and university students essay competition “Ways of Understanding” is announced under the project “Dumaidan – 2017: Getting Together around the Tent of Understanding“.
This year’s project “Dumaidan – 2017: Getting Together around the Tent of Understanding“ is dedicated to finding ways of understanding among people from different ethnic groups and cultural traditions.
Dumaidan is an expert discussion project on the certain topic, which will be held in different regions of Ukraine during 2017 in partnership with the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA. During the events, expert and public discussions on tolerance and overcoming stereotypes and reducing the social distance between people from different ethnic groups will be held. The schedule of events within the festival can be found at docudays.org.ua. As part of the planned activities, Dumaidan joins around the theme of understanding all who wish to join. High school students and university students can make their creative contribution to the common result of this year’s draft, taking part in the essay competition.
The contest is to encourage young people to reflect on tolerance and peaceful coexistence, find ways of understanding among people from different ethnic groups and cultural traditions in Ukraine. The list of issues around which debate of this year’s Dumaidan will be built can be found below.
Winners will receive valuable prizes.
Deadline for essay submissions: by June 15 inclusive.
The form of essay is free.
A little advice to future authors of essays: try to focus not only on the description of a problem, but try to formulate and express your vision of ways out of this problem.
Texts should be sent to e-mail: olena.sapozhnikova@helsinki.org.ua
Contact person: Olena Sapozhnikova, mob. tel .: +38 063 85 66 22 0; +38 0993090739
The topic of the essay can be any of the problems listed below, as well as other problems on the topic that seem relevant to you:
Organizers: Public Association “Ukrainian Helsinki Human Rights Union, International Renaissance Foundation, the Congress of National Communities of Ukraine, International public organization “International Union”, Council of National Communities of Ukraine, Ukrainian Union of NGOs “Congress of Roma of Ukraine”, ICF Roma Women’s Fund “Chirikli.”
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