Ukrainian Visions of Peace: (Re-)Shaping Peace through Victory

What is it about?

This article explores Ukrainian vision of peace following Russia’s full-scale invasion of February 2022. In the spirit of "local ownership", it takes seriously Ukrainian articulations of peace at the governmental, civil society, and grassroots levels. We suggest the concept of “peace through victory” and discuss potential tensions and challenges contained in this notion of peace, including tensions between peace by armed resistance and peace by peaceful means, between goals of Ukrainian victory and defeat of Russian imperialism, between peace and justice, as well as between militarization and democracy. The article concludes with a call for deeper scholarly and practitioner engagement with Ukrainian conceptions of peace through victory.

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