Coordinator: Denys Kiryukhin (H.S. Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences, Kiev, Ukraine)

Globalization is a complex and ambiguous process. It leads to the formation of a global infrastructure and an institutional network, such as international institutions, systems of the world economy, and the growing interdependence among countries. However, there are some tensions between the logic of the world economy and the expansion of Western ideas and institutions and other cultures with their own traditions and values. Hence, it is the tension between particular and universal values, from which a number of theoretical and practical problems arise.

Today people cannot imagine whether they could live a life "as it was before". In this global age, it seems everything, everywhere and everyone are somehow connected by the media and by the internet. The socio-political and economic stability depends very much on our ability to respond adequately to the challenges faced in these global times, to learn and re-learn who we are and the meaning of life in new situation, to be able to dialogue and co-exist with others in mutual respect, and to understand the process of globalization in order to seize the opportunities.

The major challenge in the globalizing world is how to form a community and keep it alive and how to consider one cultural tradition in the new era. The following are some specific concerns:

- How are the borders and boundaries between communities determined in the current global times?

- How is the global order possible and what is the fate of national states?

- How do environmental issues force the transformation of modern society?

- Is tradition an obstacle to globalization, or, on the contrary, an answer to problems of the modern world?

- How is it possible to have a moral consensus in a pluralist and diverse society?

- What threats does globalization impose on such values as freedom, justice and humanism?

The research team will focus their studies on the above and other questions based on a multi-paradigm and multi-disciplinary approach.

Team Members

Denys Kiryukhin, Research Scholar, H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Svitlana Shcherbak, Research Scholar, H.Skovoroda Institute of Philosophy, The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine

Anna Laktionova, Associate Professor, Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy, Faculty of Philosophy, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv