Session 11
Saturday (May 7):
10.30 AM-12.00 PM ET
CHAIR
Sofie Bedford
(Uppsala U, Sweden)
PAPERS
Yury Chavusau
(Independent Scholar, Belarus)
Freedom of Association in Belarus:
Legal and Practical Environment for Civil Society Organizations
Olwen Byrne
(Leiden U, The Netherlands)
Exploring the Threat to Democratisation and Human Rights:
The Paradox of International Institution Engagement With Government Organised
Non-Governmental Organisations in Azerbaijan and Belarus
Vadim Mojeiko
(Belarusian Institute for Strategic Studies)
Changes in Values and Identity as the Foundation
of a New Civil Society in Belarus
Tatsiana Chulitskaya
(Vytautas Magnus U, Lithuania)
Belarusian Civil Society and Social Movements in Times of Political Crises:
Main Developments, Challenges, and Needs
Ilya Sulzhytski
(U of Greifswald, Germany)
A Revolution Aborted? Social Impacts and Discourses
of the Belarusian Crisis in 2021
DISCUSSANT
Nicolas Bouchet
(German Marshall Fund of the United States)