Voices of Tolerance: Svitlana Osipchuk, Ukraine
Svitlana Osipchuk is one of the Promoting Tolerance Fellows from Ukraine. She is a history teacher and researcher at NTUU KPI. Furthermore, Osipchuk is a project manager at Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies and a project manager at MAG. Osipchuk is a freelance author on history and memory studies for LB.ua. Academically, she holds a MA degree in History from NaUKMa (Kyiv, Ukraine). She graduated specializations on Teaching Holocaust by the Ukrainian Centre for Holocaust Studies and The House of Wanzee Conference in 2015 and the International Academy on Remembrance and Human Rights (Berlin, Germany) by the EVZ Foundation.
The topic of the 25th edition of the Programme is “Confronting Bigotry and Intolerance in the Face of Rising Populism”. In her interview below you can get to know more about some of the challenges Ukraine is facing due to populism.
We should teach young people that empathy, understanding, talking to each other is good.
In a short interview the Promoting Tolerance fellow gives tools of how to confront intolerance and bigotry.
Promoting tolerance is relevant today, because there are still many excluded groups, which are discriminated for their otherness.
During the seminar in Berlin, there were TED-like speeches of a few fellows. Svitlana shared some cases of intolerance from Ukraine. Have a look in the video below.
Svitlana Osipchuk, Ukraine: What is your key message from the TED talk?