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Facing Russian Aggression: Struggle for Security and Peace in Europe
The volume includes papers presented at the symposium “Challenges of Russia’s War against Ukraine and the Ethical Principles of Sustainable Peace in Europe,” held in Munich, Germany, on February 12–13, 2024, in anticipation of the 2024 Munich Security Conference. This symposium was made possible through the collaboration of Ludwig Maximilian University (LMU), the Ukrainian Catholic University (UCU), and the University of Notre Dame – three leading academic institutions from Germany, Ukraine, and the United States – and the support of the Catholic Church through the charitable organization Renovabis, the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Apostolic Exarchate in Germany and Scandinavia. At a time when Ukraine faces the existential challenge of war with the Russian aggressor, Catholic intellectuals are contributing to critical discussions on sociopolitical and security issues, offering value-based guidelines for their resolution. The papers in this volume examine the traumatic experiences of the past, contemporary manifestations of totalitarianism, the ethical dimensions of global security, opposition to Russian aggression, and the principles for achieving a just peace.
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Facing Russian Aggression: Struggle for Security and Peace in Europe / ed. by Volodymyr Turchynovskyy and Oleh Turiy. Lviv: Ukrainian Catholic University Press 2025. – 232 p.
ISBN 978-617-7608-91-1 (paper)
ISBN 978-617-8408-22-0 (electronic)
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Contents
Volodymyr Turchynovskyy
Introductory Remarks: Envisioning Security in Times of Insecurity
I
DEFENDING FREEDOM AND PEACE: CHRISTIAN INSPIRATIONS
Cardinal Reinhard Marx
Greeting at the Symposium “Challenges of Russia’s War against Ukraine and the Ethics Principle of Sustainable Peace in Europe”
Bishop Bohdan Dzyurakh
In the Hands of God and Humanity: the Struggle for Peace and Security in Europe
Myroslav Marynovych
​Zeitenwende for Christian Oikumene
II
UNREQUITED PAST AND THE RISE OF TOTALITARIANISM
Katrin Boeckh
​The Trauma Bonding of the Communist Past, And the Crossroads where the Ukrainian and Russian Ways Diverged
Andriy Mykhaleyko
Churches in Eastern Europe and New Faces of Totalitarianism
Gelinada Grinchenko
Dehumanizing of Ukrainians by Russians: From Mocking to Inciting to Kill
Oksana Mikheieva
​Russian Aggression Against Ukraine in Action: Legitimization of Occupation and Mechanisms of Slow Dependency
Czesław Porębski
​War, the Pyramid of Power, and Law
III
RUSSIA`S WAR AND UKRAINE`S FIGHT FOR HUMANITY
Alois Joh. Buch
Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom and Democracy – a Fight For True Humanity
Taras Dobko
​What if Ukraine Fails?
Clemens Sedmak
Ukraine and the Normative Idea of Integral Human Development
Robert Brinkley
​A View from Britain of Russia’s War against Ukraine
​Antoine Arjakovsky
​Ukraine’s Path to NATO: the Key to Ending the War in 2024
IV
BETWEEN JUSTICE AND SECURITY
Mary Ellen O’Connell
Russia’s War on Ukraine: the Consequences of Undermining the Law of Peace
Christian Walter
Security Versus Justice? Methodological Remarks
Jan Tombiński
​Security versus Justice? Political Aspects
Andriy Kostyuk
Fiat Justitia et Pereat Mundus?
Marek Mišák
​The Role of the European Union in Promoting Security and Justice – Key Elements of a New Architecture of Peace
V
ETHICAL PRINCIPLES OF THE GLOBAL SECURITY ORDER
Markus Patenge
​Christian Peace Ethics in an Era of Disorder
Markus Vogt
Christian Peace Ethics Must Be Capable of Confronting Conflict
Ingeborg G. Gabriel
“Never Again!” and “Clash of Civilizations” Reflecting on Ethical Principles of Peace in a New Geopolitical Situation
Valeria Korablyova
Global Revisionism on the Rise: Could Moral Imperatives Navigate the World (Dis)order?
Greg Lewicki