Abstract
The objective of this article is to show the characteristics of volunteering in Ukraine after the Euromaidan. The article presents its specifics and the socio-political conditions which allowed to define voluntary work in Ukrainian legislature. It also discusses the main forms of social engagement in volunteering, inaugurated at the onset of the anti-terrorist operation in the eastern part of the country. The level of public trust towards voluntary organisations has also been examined in the article. Voluntary work has also been analysed from the perspective of social research conducted in Ukraine since 2014. In the conclusions of this text it is claimed that development of social self-organisation is one of the results of Euromaidan. Voluntary work after Euromaidan has become a form of self-organisation and self-mobilisation of the society, preventing a collapse of the Ukrainian state as a result of the political crisis and armed conflict in Donbass.
Highlights
Social and political protests in 2013–2014 against the rule of President Viktor Yanukovych (Euromaidan, Revolution of Dignity) initiated a number of changes in Ukraine
Gathered by Davyd Arachamiia, only in 2014–2015, around 14,500 people and 2,500 social organisations were involved in voluntary work, and at least 1.5 million people at least once helped the army [W Ukrajini 14,5 tysiacz... 2015]
The following article approaches the phenomenon of the Ukrainian voluntary work as a group action of social organisations and individuals aiming at: a) reinforcing defence and security of the Ukrainian state; b) supporting the army and those people who were affected by the conflict in Donbass; c) improving the functioning of the state structures
Summary
Social and political protests in 2013–2014 against the rule of President Viktor Yanukovych (Euromaidan, Revolution of Dignity) initiated a number of changes in Ukraine They became an impulse to develop volunteering. To meet this objective, the following hypothesis is formulated: A wide movement for voluntary work has impacted the development of civil society in Ukraine after Euromaidan. The following hypothesis is formulated: A wide movement for voluntary work has impacted the development of civil society in Ukraine after Euromaidan To verify this hypothesis, systems theory, data analysis and case study are used as methodology. Of ATO is to free these provinces of armed formations supported by Russia, which occupied these territories in spring 2014 and proclaimed the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic and Donetsk People’s Republic [Piechal 2015]
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