After more then four years of war against Ukraine we ask what international solidarity should look like, and what we can learn from Ukrainian resilience?
Kharkiv has been on the front line of Russia’s war against Ukraine for four years. The city has become a symbol of Ukrainian resilience. Amsterdam mayor Femke Halsema will speak with Kharkiv’s mayor, Ihor Terekhov. Through what challenges has he led his city? What should international solidarity look like? And what can we learn from Ukrainian resilience?
That final question lies at the heart of this program. While Ukraine is fighting for European ideals, we ask whether the rest of Europe is equally prepared to stand up for them. How prepared are we to defend democratic values in times of war?
Speakers
How do you report on a closed dictatorship with an oppressed yet defiant population? Journalist Nilo Tabrizy is an open-source investigative journalist who covers Iran for Reuters.
In a world marked by war, geopolitical rivalry and shrinking civic space, what is the future of human rights? How can international human rights norms remain credible when they are increasingly contested or violated? And what can be done to safeguard human dignity and the international rule-based order? In conversation with Volker Türk.
How does a society move forward after atrocity? After war? Genocide? Linda Kinstler (a journalist for The Economist and a scholar at Harvard University) studies ‘oblivion’, a collective process of forgiveness and forgetting. A process of pardoning. Not to let people off the hook, but rather to acknowledge their guilt in a meaningful way. Because: ‘a pardon confirms the crime.’
