ABOUT CENTER
The CPCFPU was founded in 1992 as the Ukrainian Center for Peace, Conversion and Conflict Resolution Studies (UCPCCRS). In 1998 the name of the Center was changed in order to better reflect the main subject of its research, which is foreign and security policy of Ukraine.
Our main purpose is the completion of research projects through highly qualified, well-grounded scholar's investigation into current problems of security, political and social development of Ukraine, achieving integration into the European and world community of nations, disarmament, conversion. Results of our studies are presented to Ukraine's state bodies, political leaders in Ukraine and abroad.
We have published 14 analytical reports on a wide range of issues including, in particular, civil society, human and minorities' rights, external migration, social-economic condition of population and potential of conflicts in the country, and territorial reconstruction of Ukraine, power elites, problems of the Armed Forces and the military-industrial complex of Ukraine and civil control over their activities, conversion, international situation of Ukraine and integration with European structures.
The Center launched the project Ukrainian Monitor (before June 2001 - Monitoring Foreign and Security Policy of Ukraine) in January 1997. We started this project in order to compensate the lack of analytical materials on Ukrainian foreign policy and security issues. Our experts regularly collect and profoundly analyze factual and sociological information on the main events and trends in foreign and security policy in Ukraine. The mechanism of policy formation and the influence of leading political actors in this process are also examined.
Ukrainian Monitor includes:
- weekly Headlines and Comments with short analysis of events, government decisions, treaties, etc.
- public opinion polls studying the most important problems facing Ukrainian society and measuring the public's confidence in decisionmaking bodies and politicians
- quarterly reports of the main developments and trends in foreign and security policies, based on the polling of foreign and security policy experts
- annual report reflecting trends and both short- and medium-term prognostication in the field of foreign and security policy
- occasional reports (4-5 papers on the most topical issues each month)
Materials of the CPCFPU are prepared in cooperation with researchers of the National Institute for Strategic Studies, National Institute of International Security Problems, Institutes of the National Academy of Science of Ukraine, including the Institute of Sociology, Institute of World Economy and International Relations, NGO's, institutions of higher education, etc.
Our main sponsors are Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, Freedom House, NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine.
Among our customers and partners are the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Khartron and Pivdenmash companies, foreign embassies in Kyiv, including those of Finland, France, Germany, Sweden, Japan, USA, as well as such research organizations as the Olof Palme International Center, NATO Information and Documentation Center in Ukraine, Institute for East European Research of the Free University of Berlin, Institute for Security Studies of the Western European Union, German Society for Foreign Affairs, East-West Institute, Institute d'Etudes Europeennes, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, International Renaissance Foundation, Freedom House, Atlantic Council of Ukraine, SOCIS-Gallup, Democratic Initiatives Foundation, Ukrainian political science journal Political Thought, and others.
Our web site, containing 1997-2000 Monitoring Archive, has been included by the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) in ISN LASE, a limited area search engine containing best Internet resources on international relations and security issues.
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