Introductions by Emily Channell-Justice, Director of the Temerty Contemporary Ukraine Program at the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University.
Moderated by Mariana Budjeryn, Senior Research Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.
IN-PERSON and ONLINE via Zoom Webinar (live). Registration is required to attend online.
As Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine continues well into its third year, claiming ever more civilian and military lives, calls for a negotiated solution to the conflict abound. Mr. Reznikov discusses the prospects of reaching a negotiated end of the war in Ukraine from his vast experience of negotiating with the Russian side, before and after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. What are Russian aims in Ukraine and are they compatible with Ukrainian sovereignty and European security? Under what circumstances can the space for negotiations be created? What role can Ukraine’s international partners and third parties play in ending the war?
Oleksii Reznikov served as Ukraine’s minister of defense in 2021-2023 and as minister for reintegration of the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine in 2020-2021. As a deputy mayor of Kyiv in 2014-2018, he headed the Ukrainian delegation at the Congress of local and regional authorities of the Council of Europe in 2015-2016. A lawyer by training and profession, Mr. Reznikov was the deputy head of the Ukrainian delegation to the Minsk negotiations on the peaceful settlement of the war in Ukraine’s east and Russian occupation of the Donbas. In 2004, he was a legal counsel to presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, bringing the case of election falsification to Ukraine’s Supreme Court and winning the decision for election rerun. Mr. Reznikov was awarded the Order of the Cross of Vytis for special determination, sacrifice, and leadership in the defense of Western democratic values and the fight for a safe Europe by the President of Lithuania, the Silver Cross of Merit by the President of Poland, the Medal of Merit by the Defense Minister of Lithuania, and the Medal for outstanding leadership during the war by the Defense Minister of Denmark.
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LOCATION:Belfer Case Study Room (S-020), CGIS-South Concourse Level, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20241016T210000Z DTEND:20241016T223000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR